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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
What's that Smell?
From Birth to Death
100
The scientific study of thought and behavior
What is psychology
100
The first stage of the scientific method
What is observe?
100
Small segments of DNA that contain information for producing proteins
What are genes?
100
The psychological process of interpreting stimuli from our senses
What is perception?
100
2nd stage of prenatal development when major organs are formed
What is the embryonic stage?
200
A big debate in psychology regarding whether our biology or our environment causes our traits
What is the Nature-Nurture debate?
200
Necessary in science to either confirm or disconfirm study's results
What is replication?
200
Part of the nervous system that will initiate the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
200
Process by which our sensitivity declines when an object constantly stimulates our senses (e.g getting used to a smell in our home)
What is sensory adaptation?
200
Substances that can interfere with prenatal development and cause birth defects
What are teratogens?
300
The book and classification system that contains diagnoses for more than 250 psychological disorders
What is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th Edition)?
300
The portion of the population that is actually observed
What is a sample?
300
Part of the neuron that send signals/carries messages away from the neuron
What is the axon?
300
Receptor cells in the skin that are sensitive to different tactile qualities
What are mechanoreceptors?
300
Erikson's stage during early adulthood
What is Intimacy versus Isolation?
400
Period when asylums began and supernatural causes (witchcraft, demons) were blamed for mental illness
What is the middle ages?
400
An example would be observing and recording the behavior of teenagers in a place they typically hangout, such as the mall.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
When multiple genes interact to create or influence a trait, such as intelligence and personality.
What is polygenic transmission?
400
Cells in the retina that convert light energy into nerve energy
What are photoreceptors?
400
Kids in this Piaget stage are egocentric and fail at conservation tasks
What is the preoperational stage?
500
Professional who has earned a medical degree and can diagnose and prescribe medicine for mental illnesses
What is a psychiatrist?
500
Can tell us how two variables are related but not about cause and effect
What is a correlation?
500
Part of the hindbrain that regulates breathing, heart rate, and arousal
What is the medulla?
500
Part of the brain known as the sensory relay station
What is the thalamus?
500
Type of intelligence that involves knowledge gained from experience, learning, education, and practice
What is crystallized intelligence?