Psychological Foundations & Research
Process which involves taking ideas (in the form of theories and hypotheses) and testing those against the real world (in the form of empirical observations).
What is the scientific method?
This is the basic building block of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
This occurs when sensory receptors detect sensory stimuli.
What is sensation?
Pavlov’s dogs demonstrated this type of learning.
These indivduals refer to your two favorite psychology instructors.
Who is Ella & Leili?
In an experiment, this is the variable a researcher manipulates.
What is the independant variable?
This branch of the autonomic nervous system activates the “fight or flight” response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This involves the organization, interpretation, and conscious experience of sensations.
What is perception?
This is based on the work of B. F. Skinner.
What is operant conditioning?
This is the ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities.
What is creativity?
Refers to three measures of central tendency used to describe data.
What is the mean, median, and mode?
The branch of the nervous system is associated with returning the body to routine, day-to-day operations and a relaxed state.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
These are chemical senses that employ receptors on the tongue and in the nose that bind directly with taste and odor molecules in order to transmit information to the brain for processing.
What is taste and smell?
This is the loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
What is amnesia?
Related concepts that guide our expectations and routines in daily life and social situations.
What are schemata?
These make up the 5 Psychological Domains
What is biological, cognitive, developmental, social and personaility, mental and physical health?
This is an area where neurotransmitters cross over to bind with receptors on the next neuron.
What is the synaptic cleft/ gap/ synapse?
Refers to our awareness of internal and external stimuli, with different states and levels of awareness.
What is consciousness?
There are three main types of learning.
What are classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning?
Refers to the phenomenon where individuals fail to recall or notice their own choices immediately after making them.
What is choice blindness?
This individual is often recognized as the founder of modern psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Vundt?
Scientists often organize the brain into major parts based on location and function. One common approach divides it into three main regions called the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. This region is responsible for complext though, emotion, memory, and reasoning.
What is the forebrain?
Drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, and amphetamines fall into this category because they increase activity in the central nervous system.
What are stimulants?
These are some common memory strategies that can be used in everyday situations.
What are mnemonic devices, rehearsal, self-referencing, and adequate sleep.
These are different strategies that exist for solving problems.
What is trial and error, applying algorithms, and using heuristics?