Sensational
The study of relationships between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli that cause them.
What is "psychophysics"?
The gap between neurons over which neurotransmitters need to cross in order to send a signal.
What is the Synaptic Gap/Synapse?
This part of the nervous system contains the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Another way of stating "born vs. inborn" is...
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
What is false?
This part of the brain helps with posture, balance, and voluntary movements of our daily lives. So you can thank it for not falling flat on your face every day!
What is the Cerebellum?
True or False: All parts of the nervous system have forms of protection.
What is true? (That's deep)
Our own unique codes of DNA.
What is a genotype?
Daily Double: Define circadian rhythm.
What is the natural rhythm of your activity and inactivity throughout a day?
Depth perception contains these two types of cues that are used by one eye or both eyes respectively.
What are monocular and binocular cues?
The three main parts of the brain.
What are the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain.
List the steps of the nervous system functions (technical terms for how our nerves move us to action!) There are 3.
2. Integration (processing)
3. Motor Output
This organizer was created to help predict which traits offspring could inherit from parents (and give the number of possibilities).
What is a Punnett Square?
The uncommon events (such as night terrors or sleepwalking) are most likely to occur during this stage of sleep.
What is Stage IV?
Double Jeopardy: What is the name of the law that states the larger the original stimulus, the larger the change is needed for a person to detect the difference?
What is Weber's Law?
This part of the brain functions as a part of our fight or flight response. It is responsible for intense reactions of fear and anger.
What is the amygdala?
These are two other "nervous systems" that are part of the peripheral nervous system.
What are the Somatic Nervous System and the Autonomic Nervous System?
Psychologists will study these in a family unit in order to understand the importance of genetic traits.
What are twins?
List the four sleep disorders we discussed in class and include a brief description of each.
Insomnia
Narcolepsy
Night Terrors
Sleepwalking
Gestalt Principles are made up of 5 patterns. What are they?
What are proximity, similarity, continuity, simplicity, and closure?
Double Jeopardy: The four lobes of the brain and locations.
Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, and Temporal
This neurotransmitter is involved in learning, arousal, and movement. It's undersupply is linked with Parkinson's disease. The oversupply is linked with Schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This behaviorist argued that nurture alone was responsible for how a person behaves, arguing that, with the right conditions, he could make any child "any type of specialist I might select..."
Who is John Watson?
Which psychologist is credited with theories on dream interpretation, taking the spiritual practice into the scientific realm?
Who is Sigmund Freud?