Sleep
What does REM stand for?
What is Rapid Eye Movements?
The best type of study to observe a phenomenon out in public.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
This lobe is in charge of your judgment, decision-making, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
An eating disorder in which a person refuses to eat, starving themself to the point that physical complications and sometimes death may occur.
What is anorexia Nervosa?
Acquiring new behaviors, values, and attitudes simply by watching role models.
What is observational learning?
Sleep disorder where breathing repeatedly stops and starts.
What is sleep apnea?
When neither the participant nor the researcher knows the assignment or purpose of the research.
What is Double-Blind Study?
This part connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
A disorder characterised by age-inappropriate inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity.
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts?
What is the psychoanalytic theory?
Adults spend the majority of their sleep time in which stage?
What is stage 2 (Non-REM 2)?
In-depth, intensive analysis of a single individual or small group. Ideal for studying rare conditions but hard to generalize.
What is a case study?
This type of brain scan reveals both structure and function.
What is fMRI?
A psychological disorder marked by extreme mood swings; also called manic-depression.
What is bipolar depression?
Children's intelligence changes as they grow through four universal, sequential stages characterized by distinct shifts in how they understand the world.
What is Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
The Brain transmits Delta waves during which stage of sleep?
What is stage 3 (Non-REM 3)?
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures and methods to research a subject in a research study.
What is an operational definition?
These are examples of association areas
What are Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area?
An anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms such as flashbacks and recurrent thoughts of a psychologically distressing event outside the normal range of experience.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
knowledge is organized into mental frameworks or networks of information that help us quickly interpret new situations.
What is Schema Theory?
A chronic neurological disorder where the brain struggles to regulate sleep-wake cycles. (Sleep attacks).
What is Narcolepsy?
A measure between 1 and -1 that shows how strongly two pieces of data predict each other.
Its main function is to produce and release essential hormones that control vital bodily processes
What is the pituitary gland?
Psychotic disorders characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, behavior, language, communication and emotion.
What is schizophrenia?
Individuals experience psychological discomfort when they hold two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes simultaneously.
What is Cognitive Dissonance Theory?