unit 1
Who was William James influenced by ?
Charles Darwin
They are part of the peripheral nervous system and connect muscles, glands, and sense organs to the central nervous system.
nerves
Critical thinkers can be best described as ..
questioning
Is alcohol a depressant or stimulant?
depressant
Deep sleep shows what kind of waves ?
delta waves
who is the founder of behaviorism ?
john b. watson
Hormones affect what part of the body?
the brain
Who used the method of introspection to scientifically identify basic elements of mind?
Edward Titchener
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.
Kinesthetic sense
What stage of sleep do jerky eye movements occur?
REM sleep
Is the thought that you could have predicted the very outcome after learning the outcome of an event.
hindsight bias
What are the “Four F’s” the hypothalamus controls?
Feeding, fighting, fleeing, mating
A nerve cell , the basic building block of the nervous system.
neuron
What are the three most common psychoactive drugs?
Caffeine, Alcohol, and Nicotine
Who showed that memory loss happens rapidly in the first couple of days and then levels off ?
Ebbinghaus
According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
observation
Who studied nerve disease and parts of the brain ?
Carl Wernicke
What are the two types of depth perception cues?
Monocular cue and binocular cue
Process of organizing and interpreting sensory info letting us remember/recognize meaningful things
perception
Mnemonic device in which you associate items you want to remember with imaginary places.
The Method of Loci
The science of behavior and mental processes.
psychology
Locations on a receptor neuron into which a specific neurotransmitter fits like a key into a lock.
receptor sites
What threshold is when stimuli are below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness?
Subliminal threshold
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
grouping
When an older memory disrupts the recall of a newer memory
Proactive interference