1.Psychological Science
This type of research has to goal to change behavior or outcomes.
What is applied research?
This fatty substance around axons helps action potentials travel faster.
What is myelin sheath?
When we swim in the ocean, we experience _________________________ because we eventually don't notice the cold water.
What is sensory adaptation?
These types of dreams are ones where we know we're dreaming.
What is lucid dreaming?
What is negative reinforcement?
What of these correlations is strongest?
-.25 or .90
What is .90?
Neurons exchange chemicals called neurotransmitters in the _______________.
What is the synaptic gap?
This type of processing is what allows us to notice things during mindfulness.
What is bottom-up processing?
This sleeping disorder interrupts peoples' lives because they sleep unexpectedly during the day.
What is narcolepsy?
This stimulus causes a relevant, automatic or reflexive response.
What is unconditioned stimulus?
The evolutionary perspective is based on a specific theory that states behaviors are what they are today due to surviving ancestors passing down their genes.
What is natural selection?
What is electrical and travels within neurons?
What is an action potential?
When we can't fully hear someone on the phone, we can still kind of guess what they're saying because of this type of processing.
What is top-down processing?
Sean wants his sister to stop coming in his room while he's studying. Therefore, he should _________ her behavior somehow.
What is punish?
If a researcher studies people in India, it cannot be generalized to students in Los Angeles because it violates what would be deemed as a _____________ sample.
What is representative?
The parasympathetic nervous system is part of which specific nervous system?
Nociceptors are helpful to humans because they help us respond to heat, cold, chemicals and pressure through the skin that we sense as _______.
What is pain?
Sean has figured out his sister doesn't like spiders so he puts a fake spider web across his door that she walks into and gets scared. What type of punishment was the spider web?
What is positive?
Correlation does not equal _____________.
What is causation?
If a person is struggling with symptoms in their vision after an accident, which part of their brain is most likely affected?
What is occipital lobe?
This sensory system contributes to our sense of taste, or gustation.
What is olfaction?
Magicians often rely on the fact that humans do not attend to all of the stimuli around us. This is called:
When we first up a sticky note on our mirror as a reminder, "STUDY FOR FINAL!", we look at it and wash our hands faster to get back to studying. Eventually we don't respond to the sticky note anymore and wash our hands at a regular pace. What happened in regards to the sticky note?
What is habituation?