The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
100
A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior.
What is a biological psychology?
100
Classified as tissue destruction.
What is a lesion?
100
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is cognition?
100
The mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situation.
What is intelligence?
200
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is standard deviation?
200
The bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receives messages and conduct impulses towards the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
200
the oldest part and central core of the brain, beginning where the spinal cord swells as it enters the skull.
What is the brainstem?
200
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.
What is heuristic?
200
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in their mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is Savant Syndrome?
300
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.(Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.)
What is hindsight bias?
300
A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons: enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next
What is the mylein sheath?
300
A technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of soft tissue.
What is a MRI( magnetic resonance imaging)?
300
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language.
What are semantics?
300
The symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fell near the average while fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
What is a normal curve?
400
Effect experimental results caused by exceptions alone.
What is the placebo effect.
400
the endocrine system's most influential gland. under the influence of the hypothalamus. Also regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
400
Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish and protect neurons.
what are glial cells?
400
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way you think.
What is linguistic determinism?
400
A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorder caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is Down Syndrome?
500
the perception of e relationship where none exists.
What is illusory correlation?
500
The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system?
500
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweeps across the brains surface. Their waves are measured by electrodes places on the scalp.
What is an electroencephalogram?
500
The stage in speech development from about the age of 1-2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words.
What is the one-word stage?
500
The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?