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A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.
What is a heuristic?
The black spot in the eye through which light enters
What is the pupil?
This part of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing
What is the medulla?
An anxiety disorder where an irrational fear causes someone to avoid a certain situation
What is a phobia?
Experimental result caused by expectations alone
What is the placebo effect?
Mental image or best example of something
What is a prototype?
The part of the eye which produces color sensations
What are cones?
What lobe receives info from your visual field
What is the occipital lobe?
Disorder where symptoms occur with no physical cause
What is somatoform disorder?
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
What is hindsight bias?
A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially one that has been successful in the past
What is a mental set?
The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye
What is the blind spot?
The brain's ability to shape and mold itself
What is plasticity?
People with bipolar disorder alternate between depression and ____
What is mania?
A variable other than the independent variable that could influence the dependent variable
What is a confounding variable?
Overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements
What is overconfidence?
The process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina
What is accomodation?
Damage to this area of the brain causes the person to speak in meaningless phrases
What is the wernicke's area?
Depressed people stay depressed when self-defeating beliefs arise from ____
What is learned helplessness?
Measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
What is standard deviation?
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
What is belief perseverance?
The difference between the visual images that each eye perceives because of the different angles in which each eye views the world
What is retinal disparity?
This hemisphere is activated when one speaks or calculates
What is the left hemisphere?
High levels of this neurotransmitter can be found in the brain of patients with schizophrenia
What is dopamine?
A belief that others share the same opinion about something, when actually most don't
What is false consciousness?