Bizzare
Is it possible to get a song literally stuck in your head for years on end?
Yes!
A lady named Susan Root from Essex, England got a particular song stuck in her head for four years. The song was a 1952 tune performed by Patti Page called “How Much is that Doggie in the Window.”
A psychological defense mechanism in which individuals attribute characteristics they find unacceptable in themselves to another person.
Projection
Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult, embarrassing or in which help may not be available in the event of having a panic attack
Panic disorder (Agoraphobia)
When neither the researcher nor participant knows assignment or the purpose of research
Double Blind-study
Who is the psych sciences dept head
Kimberly Kinzing
You are less likely to receive help when surrounded by lots of people
True! Bystander effect
Vivid, detailed memories of significant events
Flashbulb memory
Individuals intentionally produce, simulate or exaggerate physical or mental illness to gain attention, sympathy or the "patient" role
Munchausen syndrome
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures and methods to research a subject in a research study
Operational Definition
What is the striate cortex?
Visual cortex
Can blind people have visual hallucinations?
This sense in the body helps you process orientation by way of the inner ear
Vestibular sense
Intense fear of fatness
Anorexia Nervosa
This might be the best type of study to observe a phenomenon out in public
Naturalistic Observation
What is the name of the psych club prez
Naz
Owning what animal increases the risk of developing schizophernia
A cat!
A molecule that stimulates responses by binding to the receptor sites
Agonist
Someone close, like a spouse/parent/sibling/pet, has been replaced by an identical looking imposter
Capgras Delusion
This delusional misidentification is commonly associated with underlying neurological or psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia (particularly paranoid subtypes), Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, traumatic brain injuries, and other forms of neurodegeneration.
What should the value of p be for the result to have statistically significance?
<0.05
The period of inactivity between neurons firing
Refractory period
hmmmmmmmmm
free points?
A structure in the brain that controls arousal
Reticular Formation
Individuals experience an intense and persistent desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs or become paralyzed
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), formerly known as Apotemnophilia
A measure between 1 and -1 that shows how strongly two pieces of data predict each other
Correlation Coefficient
The brain's ability to perceive depth and three-dimensional structure by combining the slightly different images seen by each eye.