Perspectives of Psych
This perspective emphasizes unconscious drives and early childhood experiences.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
This study type follows the same participants over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating emotions, hunger, and memory.
What is the limbic system?
These photoreceptor cells in the retina are sensitive to light and color.
What are rods and cones?
This refers to a state of deep relaxation and focused awareness often used for stress reduction.
What is meditation?
This type of memory is responsible for remembering how to ride a bike.
What is procedural memory?
This type of conditioning pairs a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a response.
What is classical conditioning?
This branch of research aims to solve practical problems rather than expanding theoretical knowledge.
What is applied research?
This type of observation takes place in a subject's natural environment without interference.
What is naturalistic observation?
This system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is the nervous system?
This visual phenomenon occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
What is the blind spot?
These types of drugs speed up central nervous system activity.
What are stimulants?
This is a vivid, detailed memory of an emotionally significant event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This occurs when a learned response is no longer reinforced and fades over time.
What is extinction?
This perspective focuses on how culture and social environment influence behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
A variable that is manipulated to observe its effects on another variable.
What is an independent variable?
These cells transmit information through electrical and chemical signals in the body.
What are nerve cells (neurons)?
These depth cues require the use of both eyes.
What are binocular cues?
The transition between light sleep and deep sleep is part of this natural cycle.
What is the sleep cycle?
Forgetting older information due to interference from newly learned information.
What is retroactive interference?
The ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the conditioned one.
What is discrimination?
This perspective highlights human potential, self-actualization, and personal growth.
What is the humanistic perspective?
A study method where neither participants nor researchers know who is in the control group.
What is a double-blind study?
The inability to hear due to damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve.
What is sensorineural deafness?
This term refers to reduced sensitivity to a constant stimulus over time.
What is sensory adaptation?
This state of consciousness is altered through substances like LSD and psilocybin.
What are hallucinogenic states?
This curve demonstrates the rate at which information is forgotten over time.
What is the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve?
A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
This type of research uses controlled settings to explore cause-and-effect relationships.
What is experimental research?
Repeating a study to ensure consistent results across different contexts and participants.
What is replication?
This lobe of the brain processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This term refers to the ability to perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in sensory input, such as size, shape, and color.
What is perceptual constancy?
These drugs slow brain activity and are often used to treat anxiety or insomnia.
What are depressants?
Retrieval of information is enhanced when the context of learning matches the context of recall.
What is context-dependent memory?
Gradual exposure to a feared stimulus as part of a therapy technique.
What is systematic desensitization?