Sleep
The daily cycle of sleeping and waking, the ________ rhythm
circadian
A p-value has to be under ___ for it to be significant
0.05
The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord
CNS (Central Nervous System)
An extreme or irrational fear is known as?
Phobia
chemical responsible for increasing sleepiness in the SCN
melatonin
Name the 4 types of statistical scales
Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
The part of the frontal lobe responsible for touch and pain
Parietal
What resource/text do psychologists use to make diagnoses?
DSM-5
a sleep disorder characterised by automatic movements, disturbed stage 4 sleep, and somnambulism
sleepwalking
What type of experiment involves each participant undergoing several different conditions?
Repeated measures
The region of the brain that includes the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla:
Brainstem
Multiple personality disorder is now known as?
Dissociative identity disorder
Most dreaming occurs during which stage of sleep?
REM sleep
What are mean, median, and mode a measure of?
A single extension from the nerve cell that carries nerve impulses from the cell body to other neurons
Axon
What is MDD (depression) most comorbid with?
Anxiety disorders (GAD, SAD, etc.)
What device is used to measure brain activity in the cerebral cortex?
EEG / electroencephalogram
The prediction that the independent variable will not change the dependent variable, or that there will be no relationship between them.
Null hypothesis
Wernicke's area
Borderline personality disorder falls under the category of ____ disorders
personality