Psychology Basics
The Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
This organ is the control center of the nervous system
What is the brain?
A bundle of interconnected neurons that fire together to carry messages.
What are nerves?
An approach that explores how our physiology and gens affect how we think and act.
What is biological perspective?
This process occurs when sensory receptors detect physical energy from the environment.
What is sensation?
An early psychologist established the first psychology laboratory in 1879.
Who is Wilhem Wundt?
This brain lobe is primarily responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is within the endocrine system and is made up of groups of cells that function o secrete hormones.
What is a gland?
An approach that focuses on how we think, including how we make decision and how our memory works?
What is cognitive perspective?
This process involves organizing and interpreting sensory information so that it becomes meaningful.
What is perception?
What is self-serving bias?
These chemical messengers transmit signals between neurons across systems.
What are neurotransmitters?
What is the pituitary gland?
An approach that explores how culture influences how we think and act.
What is cultural perspective?
These light-sensitive cells in the retina are especially important for seeing color and fine details.
What are cones?
This research method examines the relationship between two variables without manipulating them.
What is correlational research?
This part of the brain plays a major role in forming new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Sensory neurons carry information from the sensory recptors to the brain, whereas these neurons transmit information from the brain to the muscles and glands.
What are motor neurons?
An approach that focuses on our observable behavior.
What is behavioral perspective?
When the perceptual processes that normally help us correctly perceive the world around us are fooled by a particular situation so that we see something that does not exist or that is incorrect.
What is an illusion?
This variable is deliberately manipulated by a researcher in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This division of the autonomic nervous system calms the body after a stressful event.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
A drug that reduces or stops the normal effects of a neurotransmitter.
What is an antagonist?
An approach that explores how our childhood relationships influence our relationships with others today.
What is psychodynamic perspective?
The intensity of a stimulus that allows an organism to just barely detect it.
What is absolute threshold?