Introduction
The study of an organism's behaviour and mental processes.
What is psychology?
There are this many lobes on each side of the brain.
What is 4?
This describes how military professionals are able to filter out background noise to identify important sounds.
What is signal detection theory?
This part of the mind represents 90% of our experience.
What is the unconscious/subconscious mind?
The relatively permanent change in behaviour, knowledge or capacity.
What is learning?
This type of research involves "soft" data such as interviews to describe a person's experiences.
What is Qualitative?
This lobe is responsible for future planning and problem solving.
What is the frontal lobe
When individual stimuli are combined to produce an entire picture.
What is bottom-up processing?
This is the portion of the sleep cycle in which we dream vividly.
What is REM?
These are involuntary responses to environmental stimuli.
What are reflexes?
Presented as a thesis statement, this guides research.
What is theory?
This lobe is responsible for interpreting visual stimuli and our sense of vision
What is the occipital lobe?
This theory limits the pain experienced by only allowing one stimuli at a time.
What is gate control theory?
This age group requires the most amount of sleep.
What is infants?
The founder of classical conditioning.
Who is Pavlov?
This type of experimental design looks for cause and effect.
What is experimental?
This is the name for the grey matter portion of the brain that is responsible for voluntary behaviour.
What is the cerebrum?
The sense of smell is also known as:
What is olfaction?
This method of altering state of consciousness can be used in a medical setting to control pain and anxiety.
What is hypnosis?
The introduction of a pleasant or desirable consequence for the desired behaviour.
What is positive reinforcement?
The concept of _____________ means that given the information, you could repeat the experiment in a research article.
What is reproducibility? or Replicability?
This portion of the nervous system is responsible for the involuntary actions of the body.
What is the autonomic nervous system
Semicircular canals in the inner ear are the major component to which sense.
What is the vestibular system?
This type of drug speeds up the response of the central nervous system.
What is stimulants?
This type of learning requires mimicking of behaviour and relies on the memory of previous experiences.