🧪 Scientific Foundations
This is a tentative explanation used in scientific research.
What is a hypothesis?
The space between two neurons is called this.
What is the synapse?
Your awareness of thoughts and surroundings is called this.
What is consciousness?
You get nausea from grilled cheese years after chemo is this type of response.
What is a conditioned response?
This psychological concept explains why you can focus on one voice in a noisy room.
What is selective attention?
The cognitive revolution shifted psychology’s focus to this.
What are the mind and mental processes?
This nervous system controls pupil dilation and increased heart rate.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Someone's darting eyes during sleep suggest they are in this sleep stage.
What is REM sleep?
Your puppy stops greeting them after no longer receiving treats. This is called what?
What is extinction?
This famous psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This psychological approach explains why we perceive a face from a series of dots.
What is Gestalt psychology?
These photoreceptors help someone perceive rainbow colors in bright light.
What are cones?
This concept explains why participants missed a red cross during a visual task.
What is inattentional blindness?
Your initial pairing of treats with her entry is an example of this.
What is acquisition?
This type of memory allows you to briefly hold information like a phone number before dialing.
What is short-term memory?
Human eggs and sperm each contain 23 of these, made of long strands of DNA.
What are chromosomes?
This describes the pupil contracting in bright light.
What is a reflex?)
Higher amplitudes in sound waves are associated with this.
What is louder sounds
Addressing elders as “sir” or “ma’am” is an example of this type of learned behavior.
What is conditioning?
This psychological phenomenon occurs when people conform to group norms even if they disagree privately.
What is groupthink?
This term describes the tendency to maintain internal balance in biological systems.
What is homeostasis
These are the long strands that make up chromosomes.
What is DNA
This hormone helps regulate sleep but is not related to maintaining biological balance.
What is melatonin?
Deciding to become a parent is not a reflex, but this is.
What is the pupil contracting in bright light?
This type of reinforcement increases the likelihood of a behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?