Biological Basis
Our brain is protected by a layer of capillaries called what?
Blood-brain barrier
Part of brain in charge of fear response
Amygdala
What is Sensation
What occurs when a stimulus lands on a receptor.
Concepts are mental groupings usually based on what>
Prototypes
What is a longitudinal study
Study the same group of people over time
What do Psychoactive drugs do?
Alter a person’s mood, perception, and behavior.
What is the Corpus callosum
Crossover point where most nerves to and from each side of the brain connect with the body’s opposite side
What is Perception
How we make sense of a sensation, how we organize the info
What are the 2 types of heuristic
Representative and availability
What is a Cross-Sectional Study
Study people of different ages at the same point in time
Drugs are either agnostic... (2 others)
Antagonists or Reuptake inhibitors
What are the four lobes
Occipital, frontal, parietal, temporal
What is just noticeable difference
The smallest change that can be detected
What are Heuristics?
A rule of thumb that generally, but not always, can be used to make a judgment to solve a problem
What 2 things can our sachems do to help us learn
assimilate and accommodate
Sleepwalking and sleep talking are sleep disorders under the category of...
Somnambulism
Difference between stimulating and lesioning the brain?
destroying part v arousing part
What is Weber's Law
The stronger the stimulus, the larger the change required to notice that anything has changed.
What is Gamblers Fallacy
Predicting a random event based on previous random events
What are the 3 enduring issues in developmental psychology
nature and nurture, continuity and stages, stability and change
What is the Activation-Synthesis Theory
Cerebral Cortex is trying to interpret random electrical activity (dreams)
Name 5 kinds of scans
EEG, MEG, MRI, PET, CT, CAT,
What is evidence that forces competition of our attention
Stroop Effect
Describe divergent and convergent thinking
Using imagination vs using logic
What are the 2 types of Formal Operational
Abstract thinking and Hypothetical reasoning