Foundations & Methods
Founder of psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
The thing that is effected by other variables
Dependent variable
Receive, integrate, and transmit information
Neurons
Theory that suggests that color receptors are specialized for red, green, and blue
Trichromatic theory of color perception
Participants still experience change even though they receive fake or empty treatment.
Placebo
Concerned with breaking down thought to analyze consciousness
Structuralism
Affects a variable or variables
Independent variable
Central nervous system
Processing that proceeds from the individual part to the whole
Bottom-up processing
Receptor in the eyes that's responsible for color and daylight vision
Cones
Concerned with the function of consciousness, as opposed to the structure
Functionalism
Baseline group, group that does not receive treatment
Control group
Chemicals the transmit information from one neuron to another
Neurotransmitters
Theory that suggests that color receptors in the eye make antagonistic responses to different pairs of colors
Opponent processes theory
Receptors in the eyes that are specialized for night and peripheral vision
Rods
Tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables
Hypothesis
Group that receives treatment
Experiment group
Peripheral nervous system
Theory that suggests that the entire basilar membrane vibrates differently according to different frequencies
Frequency theory
Cell body of a neuron
Soma
System of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of variables.
Theory
An extraneous variable is
Not the independent variable, but still likely to have an effect on the dependent variable.
Junction where information is transmitted from one neuron to another
Synapse
Theory that suggests that the basilar membrane vibrates at a particular place
Two variables that are linked in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their specific effects.
Confound, or confounding variable.