This term stands for personal judgments based on beliefs rather than facts.
What is biases?
100
This is the complex network of cells throughout your body
What is the nervous system?
100
This is the ability to perceive the world in three dimensions
What is Depth perception?
100
The acronym REM stands for
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
100
This is any event or object that, when following a response, makes that response less likely to happen again.
What is Punishment
200
This term means the measure of the relationships between two or more variables
What is correlation?
200
This is the long bundle of neurons that transmits messages between the brain and the body
What is the spinal cord?
200
This is the tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information
What is habituation?
200
The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep is?
What is Insomnia?
200
This is the reinforcement of simple steps in a behavior that lead to a desired, more complex behavior
What is shaping?
300
This is the tenancy of observers to see what they expect to see
What is observer bias
300
This term refers to the fact that a neuron either fires completely or does not fire at all
What is all-or-none?
300
This is the study of ESP, ghost, and other subjects that do not normally fall into the realm of ordinary psychology
What is parapsychology?
300
A class of opium-related drugs that suppress the sensation of pain by binding to and stimulating the nervous system's natural receptor sites for endorphins
What is narcotics?
300
This law states that if a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated, and if fallowed by and unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated.
What is Thorndike's law of effect?
400
This method is used to determine the course of behavior
What is an experiment?
400
(>(Daily Double)>) This system consist of all nerves and neurons that are not contained in the brain and spinal cord but that run threw the body itself are in the ....
What is Peripheral Nervous System? Or PNS?
400
This is the term for images that occur when a visual sensation persist for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed
What is Afterimages?
400
Brief sidesteps into sleep lasting only a few seconds
What is Microsleep?
400
This is the reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
This perspective focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning.
What is cognitive perspective?
500
These glands secrete chemicals called hormones directly into the bloodstream.
What is endocrine glands?
500
This is the tendency to perceive things in a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions.
What is perceptual set?
500
This is a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period
What is Circadian Rhythm?
500
This Russian physiologist discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs