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Intro To Psy & Research
Brain & Behavior
Sensation & Perception
Sensation & Perception II
States of Consciousness
100
This is defined as the study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
100
The point at which a nerve impulse is triggered
What is a threshold?
100
This refers to the transmission of physical and psychological characteristics from parents to their children through genes
What is hereditary?
100
This is the mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns
What is Perception?
100
This happens when changes occur in the quality and pattern of mental activity
What is altered states of consciousness?
200
An empirical investigation structured to answer questions about the world in a systematic and intersubjective fashion
What is Scientific Observation?
200
Some neurons are coated with a fatty layer known as
What is myelin?
200
When an environment lacks normal nutrition, stimulation, comfort or love, this is known as
What is deprivation?
200
This is the basic dimensions of light and vision
What is the visible spectrum?
200
Excessive daytime sleepiness is known as
What is Hypersomnia?
300
An unfounded belief held without evidence or in spite of falsifying evidence
What is superstition?
300
The system of nerves linking the spinal cord with the body and sense organs
What is the Somatic nervous system?
300
The sum of all external conditions that affect a person is known as
What is environment?
300
These are the visual receptors for dim light that produce only black and white sensations
What are Rods?
300
These are distinctive bursts of brainwave activity that indicate a person is asleep
What are Sleep Spindles?
400
This was popularized in the 19th century by Francis Gall and is characterized by the study of the shape of the skull
What is phrenology
400
The brain loses cells daily, it simultaneously replaces them through this process
What is neurogenesis?
400
This is the only general emotion newborn infants clearly express
What is excitement (or general excitement)?
400
After they are guided into the ear canal, sound waves collide with this
What is the Tympanic Membrane (or eardrum)?
400
Any major reduction in the amount or variety of sensory stimulation is known as
What is Sensory Deprivation?
500
Combining the results of many studies as if they were all a part of one big study is known as
What is meta-analysis?
500
This part of the brain is responsible for posture, coordination, muscle tone, and memory of skills and habits
What is the Cerebellum?
500
This linguist claimed that humans have a biological predisposition, or hereditary readiness, to develop language
Who is Noam Chomsky?
500
This Humanistic Psychologist believed that some people perceive themselves and others with unusual accuracy
Who is Maslow?
500
The tendency to make a dream more logical and to add details when remembering it is called...
What is Secondary elaboration?