Unit 0
What is the median?
The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
What is behavior genetics?
To perceive one thing and not the other.
What is perceptual set?
What are teratogens?
A neuron of either firing or not firing.
What is the all or nothing response?
The average.
What is the mean?
Monozygotic twins is the technical term for this type of twin
What are identical twins?
When we judge the likelihood of events in terms of how well they match a prototype.
What is a representative heuristic?
This type of study is used to study people as they age.
What is a longitudinal study?
Our biological clock.
What are circadian rhythms?
This is what gets influence by the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
This system fires up when you get stressed while this one activates to calm you down.
What are the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems?
A clear memory of a significant event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This occurs when babies get used to certain stimuli.
What is habituation?
Organizing items into manageable units
What is chunking?
Not a causation.
What is a correlation?
Chemical messengers in the brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
Memories of facts and experiences.
What are explicit memories?
What is puberty?
The branch of psychology that looks at cognitive, social and physical changes.
What is developmental psychology?
An observed result is unlikely to have happened by random chance alone
What is statistically significant?
The part of the brain where higher level thinking takes place.
What are the frontal lobes?
The part of the brain where conscious memories are processed.
What is the hippocampus?
The part of the brain that has not fully developed in teenagers leading to risky behavior.
What is the frontal cortex?
We demonstrated this concept by playing Simon Says and Red Rover.
What are executive functioning skills?