Domains of Psych
Studies how the structure and function of the nervous system is related to behavior.
What is a biopsychologist?
A well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena
What is a theory?
The two major divisions of the nervous system.
What are the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
Mescaline is considered this type of drug because it results in profound alternations in sensory and perceptual experiences.
What is a hallucinogen?
This domain focuses on making psychology an objective science by studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable mental processes.
What is behaviorism?
Often conducted with large numbers of participants and can even be conducted by phone, email, or mail.
What is a survey?
The name given to the electrical signal that typically moves from the neuron's cell body down the axon to the axon terminals.
What is an action potential?
In this stage of sleep, our respiration and heart rate slow down.
What is stage 1?
This perspective within psychology emphasizes that the potential for good that is innate to all humans.
What is humanism?
A research design that allows for cause and effect results.
What is an experiment?
These appendages are designed to receive communications from other cells. They resemble a tree-like structure, forming projections that become stimulated by other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Cocaine is considered this type of drug because it tends to increase overall levels of neural activity.
What is a stimulant?
This area of psychology studies relatively consistent patterns of thought and behavior, measures these traits, and determines how these traits interact in a particular context to determine how a person will behave in any given situation.
What is personality psychology?
A relationship between two variables that does not provide a cause and effect conclusion where one variable increases as another variable decreases
What is a negative correlation?
The space between two neurons?
What is the synapse?
Sleepwalking, night terrors, and restless leg syndrome.
What are parasomnias?
This domain of psychology focuses on the study of prejudice, attraction, how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behavior of others, and how we resolve interpersonal conflicts.
WHat is social psychology?
A reduction in the number of research participants as some drop out of longitudinal studies over time.
What is attrition?
Responsible for responses such as pupil dilation, increased heart rate, and increased respiration.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Smoking so frequently that the individual experiences no significant, noticeable physical symptoms when they are not smoking.
What is psychological dependence?