What is Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology?
A theory that can be assessed using the scientific method is
What is Testable?
A brain imaging method that uses magnetic fields and radio waves
What is an fMRI?
Turning sensations into meaningful information we can act on
What is Perception?
A study that focuses on a small group or one individual
What is a Case Study?
This perspective emphasizes rewards and punishments
What is behaviorism?
This variable is manipulated by the researcher
What is the independent variable?
This lobe of the brain controls executive functioning
What is the Frontal Lobe?
These allow us to see color
What are Cones?
This perspective believes that humans have free will
What is Humanism?
This area of psychology includes research training, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and more but does NOT include therapy/counseling training
What is experimental psychology?
When participants have an equal chance of being assigned to a group in a study
The brain and the spinal cord a part of this nervous system
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
Transforming external stimulus into electrical signals
What is Transduction?
This part of the eye carries visual information to the brain
What is the Optic Nerve?
This perspective focuses on the unconscious mind and childhood experiences
What is psychodynamic?
Has a correlation coefficient closer to 1.00
What is a Strong Correlation?
This is a disorder of language production
What is Broca's Aphasia?
The tendency to fill in the gaps to perceive an object as being whole
What is Closure?
Effect caused by thinking that you received treatment
What is the Placebo Effect?
This perspective emphasizes the need to have diverse samples in research
What is socio-cultural?
The specific way that a researcher measures a conceptual variable, should be very specific
What is an Operational Definition?
The time after sodium channels close when they briefly cannot reopen or send another action potential
What is the Refractory Period?
The failure to notice an obvious but unexpected object because attention is engaged in a different task
What is Inattentional Blindness?
Fills a receptor to block neurotransmitters from binding
What is an Antagonist?