History of Psychology
This theory of psychology focused on breaking down mental processes into basic components (thoughts, sensations, feelings).
What is Structuralism?
This type of study involves comparing different groups of people at one point in time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
These are the two main parts of the nervous system.
What are the central and peripheral?
This class of psychoactive drugs slows down the central nervous system.
What are depressants?
This part of the eye controls how much light enters.
What is the pupil?
The chemical messengers that carry signals across the synapse between neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
The focus of this psychological theory is on the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and inner conflicts.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
What is an operational definition?
These are the two branches of the peripheral nervous system.
What are autonomic and somatic?
This is the stage of deepest non-REM sleep.
What is Stage 3?
This Gestalt principle says we group items that are close together.
What is proximity?
The idea that our experience of the world depends on both the sensory data we collect and our expectations, memories, and prior knowledge.
What is top-down processing?
Watson, Skinner, and Pavlov are all founders of this school of psychology.
What is behaviorism?
Validity refers to this.
What is the accuracy of a measure?
This brain area processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This drug category includes LSD and psilocybin.
What are hallucinogens?
Decreased sensitivity after constant stimulation is due to this.
What is sensory adaptation?
The theory that we perceive sensory information as organized wholes rather than the sum of individual parts.
What is Gestalt psychology?
This early psychological theory was inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution.
This is the consistency and stability of a measurement or method.
What is reliability?
This part of the neuron receives messages from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
What is narcolepsy?
According to this theory of color vision, all colors in the spectrum can be produced by combining red, green, and blue.
What is trichromatic (theory of color vision)?
The process by which sensory information is converted into neural signals the brain can interpret.
What is transduction?
The hierarchy of needs is a feature of this psychological theory.
What is Humanism?
The measure of how spread out data is from the mean is called this.
The brain’s ability to change and adapt after injury or experience is called this.
What is plasticity?
This hormone helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
This type of processing occurs based on sensory input alone.
What is bottom-up [processing]?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for reasoning, planning, and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?