Intro
He is considered the Father of Psychology
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The process of basing one’s confidence in an idea on systematic, direct observations of the world, usually by setting up research studies to test ideas.
What is the scientific method?
The cellular building blocks of the brain
What are Neurons?
A hole in the iris where light enters the eye.
What is the Pupil?
A failure to perceive information that is outside the focus of one’s attention.
What is Inattentional Blindness?
This term is used to identify beliefs or practices mistakenly thought to be based on valid science
What is Pseudoscience?
When a study is conducted more than once on a new sample of participants, and obtains the same basic results.
What is Replication?
Lobe that contains the primary visual cortex
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Photoreceptor cell that primarily supports nighttime vision.
What is a Rod?
A regular, 24-hour pattern of bodily arousal
What is the Circadian Rhythm?
The belief that human personality and behavior can be changed
What is a Growth Mindset?
A type of study that measures two (or more) variables in the same sample of people, and then observes the relationship between them.
What is a Correlational Study?
These three structure make up the Limbic System
What are the Hypothalamus, Amygdala, and Hippocampus?
Depth information gathered from the separation between an individual’s two eyes.
What are Binocular cues?
Stage of sleep where most dreams occur?
What is REM sleep?
What is the Clinical Perspective?
A process in which researchers locate all of the studies that have tested the same variables and mathematically average them to estimate the effect size of the entire body of studies.
What is a meta-analysis?
An early pseudoscience suggesting that mental abilities and personality traits could be read from bumps on the skull.
What is Phrenology?
The transformation of sensory stimulus energy from the environment into neural impulses.
What is Transduction?
The hidden drives and wishes that are expressed in dreams and behavior but in a disguised form
What is Latent content?
An awareness and understanding of your own thought process
What is Metacognition?
The ability of a study to rule out alternative explanations for a relationship between two variables; one of the criteria for supporting a causal claim.
What is Internal Validity?
The cells that make up the myelin sheath around neurons to insulate, support, and nourish neurons and modulate neuronal function.
What are Glial cells?
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What is Glia?
Name the Ossicle bones found in the inner ear
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
A pattern of sleep in which only one half (or hemisphere) of the brain experiences slow-wave sleep at a time, while the other half remains awake.
What is Unihemispheric sleep?