Critical Thinking
Analyzing a behavior, cognition, or whole human being from a biological, psychological, and sociological perspective...
Biopsychosocial Approach
The peripheral nervous system and central nervous system are the two major divisions of what?
The Nervous System
*Be sure to study the functions as well*
A concept of framework that organizes and interprets information
Schema
I am the tendency to maintain a balanced internal state
Homeostasis
I involve three components; a response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience... What am I?
Emotion
_________ fails to provide a cause and effect relationship
Correlational Research
I am one of the major lobes in the brain. One of my major functions relate to vision and am located towards the back upper portion of the skull/brain. What am I?
Occipital Lobe
Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information versus interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
Accommodation versus Assimilation
Physiological needs motivate us to eliminate these through actions
Drive Reduction Theory
The perception one is worse off relative to those whom one compares oneself
Relative Deprivation
The "I-Knew-It-All-Along" phenomenon
Hindsight Bias
I am the fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons. I enable vastly greater transmission speeds as neural impulses hop from one node to the next. What am I?
Myelin Sheath
Tell me the theorist and the name of the following stage:
The stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
Preoperational Stage
I was created by Masters and Johnson
Sexual Response Cycle
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously and separately triggers a physiological response(s) AND the subjective experience of emotion
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
__________ is perceiving a relationship where non exists, or perceiving a stronger-than-actual relationship
Illusory Correlation
The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them...
Corpus Callosum
I am the developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the second month, what am I?
Embryo
What are the 6 levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Physiological, Safety, Love/Belongingness, Esteem, Self-Actualization, and Self-Transcendence
Which theory discusses the Spillover Effect?
Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study
The dendrites of a neuron receive and integrate information, conducting the action potential (impulse or transmission) down the cell body to the axon fibers. From there the impulse is transmitted at various speeds (faster with myelin sheaths) down to the axon terminal where the electric impulse is hopped through the synaptic gap to another neuron's dendrite.
Neural Communication
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a type of ___________.
Teratogen
The term that describes when your body falls below this weight, you will see increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate
Set Point
The controversial hypothesis that "releasing" aggressive energy will relieve aggressive urges
Catharsis