Introduction to Psychology
He was the first person to be called a psychologist.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This document ensures that human research subjects are aware of potential risks and understand that their participation is voluntary.
What is an informed consent form?
People with damage to this area of the brain might have difficultly understanding spoken and written language.
What is Wernicke's area?
This term describes our awareness of internal and external stimuli.
What is consciousness?
This binocular cue arises because our eyes each see a slightly different image compared to each other.
What is binocular disparity?
This term applies to subfields of psychology that attempt to solve real-world problems.
What is Applied Psychology?
This term refers to the way in which psychologists specifically define variables to make them measurable and testable.
What is an operational definition?
This part of the nervous system prepares the body to respond to stressful situations.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This term describes the transition from wakefulness to sleep that is characterized by dreamlike experiences and a feeling that you are falling.
What is hypnagogia?
This term refers to the minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
This person believed that psychological disorders stem from the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is the subset of individuals selected to be studied from a given population.
What is a sample?
This band of nerve fibers allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
During this stage of sleep, there is a temporary muscle paralysis.
What is REM sleep?
In a study of this phenomenon, half of the participants did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walk through a group of people.
What is inattentional blindness?
People within this school of psychology believed that the mind cannot be studied scientifically.
What is behaviorism?
This research method provides an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case within a real-world context.
What is a case study?
This term refers to the specialization of function in each brain hemisphere.
What is lateralization?
This state of consciousness can impact cognitive and motor function as much as alcohol intoxication.
What is sleep deprivation?
This term describes the phenomenon in which sensory receptors become less responsive to a constant, unchanging stimulus.
What is sensory adaptation?
This movement brought the study of the mind back into the field of Psychology.
What is the cognitive revolution?
This term describes the tendency for participants to respond in ways that make them look good.
What is social desirability bias?
This part of the brain is involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and language.
What is the frontal lobe?
People with this condition might act out their dreams, which can result in danger to themselves and people around them.
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder?
This term describes the involuntary focusing of attention due to a change in a stimulus.
What is attentional capture?