What is Psychology?
This now-debunked pseudoscience suggested that we could tell a person's personality traits from the bumps on the top of their head.
What is phrenology?
This part of the nervous system contains two main parts: the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system (CNS)?
This phenomenon occurs when we are perceiving too many stimuli at once, and our senses only focus on what is important.
What is selective attention?
States of consciousness, such as sleep and waking, are influenced by these, which fluctuate about once per day and are governed by our body's internal biological clock.
What are circadian rhythms?
This type of memory involves conscious recollection, and can be tested by examining either recognition or recall.
What is explicit memory?
This perspective in psychology focuses on mental processes, including perception, problem solving, belief formation, and others.
What is the cognitive perspective?
These cells are the basic units of the nervous system, and are responsible for communication within the nervous system and to other parts of the body.
What are neurons?
What is vision?
During this stage of sleep, the brain is active, vivid dreams may occur, but the body and muscles are completely limp.
What is REM sleep?
This type of memory occurs when past experiences influence current thoughts or actions, even when these experiences are not consciously remembered.
What is implicit memory?
In psychology, this type of observation is used to gather data on how people and animals behave in their natural environment.
What is naturalistic observation?
To see and understand the different parts of the brain, scientists would use one of these types of imaging in a medical laboratory.
What are EEGs, measures of ERPs, PET scans, or fMRIs?
This sense can be felt with the full body, as it helps to keep us in balance and not fall over.
What is equilibrium?
This altered state of consciousness can be used for medical purposes, such as to relieve pain or discomfort during treatment, by altering a person's thoughts, emotions, behaviors, sensations, and perceptions.
What is hypnosis?
This model of understanding memory is broken into parts: the sensory register, working memory, and long-term memory.
What is the three-box model?
A correlation, or apparent relationship, between two variables in a psychological experiment, does NOT equate to this concept.
What is causation?
The brain is known to have two hemispheres, each providing motor control to one side of the body, and is separated by this structure in the middle.
What is the corpus callosum?
The stimulus for this sense is light, and what we perceive via this sense is influenced by hue, brightness, and saturation.
What is vision?
Someone may enter an altered state of consciousness using one of these, classified by categories such as stimulants, depressants, opiates, or psychedelics.
What are psychoactive drugs?
In order to remember something long-term, psychologists would say that we need to do this, thought of as an effortful encoding of information.
What is rehearsal?
This type of psychological study observes participants over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
This concept in psychology explains the brain's ability to change, learn, and integrate new information over time throughout the lifespan.
What is neural plasticity?
This theory of sensation holds that responses to sensory input depend on both a sensory process and a decision process, and can be affected based on a person's motivation, alertness, and expectations.
What is signal-detection theory?
In this altered state of consciousness, a person is awake, but may feel a split between their active and passive selves, feeling as though they are looking down on themself having an experience without being able to intervene.
What is dissociation?
This phenomenon in the study of memory can be controversial, as many people reject the idea that we can unconsciously suppress bad things that happen to us.
What is traumatic amnesia?