Psych 101 and Rearch
Dividing the conscious experience into specific elements of the brain to identify psychological experiences.
What is Structuralism?
These branch-like structures receive neurotransmitters from other neurons.
What are Dendrites?
The principles on how the brain creates perceptions on how we understand and organize sensory information.
What is Gestalt [Psychology]?
Loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
This involves the input of information into the memory system.
What is Encoding?
Studying how mental processes, behaviors, and activities help us adapt to our environment and experiences.
What is Functionalism?
What is Electrical Activity?
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must need to be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
What is Chunking?
The process of bringing up of old memories.
What is Reconstruction?
A proposed explanation for an observed situation; declared in a statement to propose a relationship between variables.
What is a Hypothesis?
Where glands produce hormones to regulate normal body functions.
What is the Endocrine System?
All your senses need this to happen in order for the central nervous system to receive energy that receptors detect from stimuli.
What is Transduction?
The tendency to think an outcome was inevitable after the fact it already happened!
What is Hindsight Bias?
When strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories, and weaker experiences form weaker memories.
Focuses on how unpleasant feelings of unconsciousness influences behavior.
What is the Psychoanalytical Theory?
When an electrical signal moves down an axon.
What is Action Potential?
Cues that need two ears to localize sound.
What is Binaural [Cues]?
What is Suggestibility?
According to these psychologists, in order for memory to go into storage, it must pass through sensory memory, short-term memory, then to long-term memory.
What is the A-S Model [of Human Memory]?
Research conducted over an extended period of time on the same group of participants; it can determine changes in people over time.
What is Longitudinal Research?
This system includes all the nerves outside of the central nervous system. It does this by connecting the brain and spinal cord to the muscles, organs, and senses in a specific region of the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
This theory of color explains how color has opposite pairs.
What is the Opponent-Process Theory?
When old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.
What is Proactive Interference?
Memories of facts and events we can consciously remember and recall.
What are Explicit Memories?