Is it sensation or perception?
What are perceptions?
Part of our brain which regulates heart rate and breathing, the other processes sensory information.
What are hypothalamus and thalamus?
Self-actualization, ideal self, unconditional positive regard, personal fulfillment, are most associated with this perspective in psychology.
What is humanism?
A measurable definition in research.
What is operational definition?
Chemical messengers are released into this "gap" between sending and receiving neurons.
What is synaptic cleft (gap)?
A sensory based perception which interprets information without the use of prior knowledge; works upward to build understanding.
What is bottom-up processing?
This cortex area located in parietal lobe involved in tactile, pain, and temperature involved with areas of the body proportional to its sensitivity.
What is somatosensory cortex?
Childhood experiences, defense mechanisms, unconscious mind, id, superego are associated with this approach in psychology.
What is psychodynamics?
What is habituation?
Amount of neurons is not a factor related to IQ scores. However, a relationship between the amount of this cell substance and IQ scores is believed to be correlated.
What are glial cells?
School of thought in psychology which states human minds tend to perceive the sum of its parts (whole) rather than the individual parts.
What is Gestalt psychology?
Frontal lobe cortex involved in skeletal and muscle voluntary movements.
What is motor cortex?
Reinforcement, punishment, shaping, social learning attempt to explain this important perspective in psychology which focuses on observable and measurable human actions not thoughts.
What is behavioral psychology?
Audiences who lack ability to process information, particularly with superficial cues, celebrity endorsement use this method to persuade.
What is peripheral route persuasion?
Sensory neurons start at receptors and end in CNS (Brain and spinal cord). This is their scientific name.
What are afferent neurons?
Two thresholds involved in sensation: one which is defined by a minimum requirement to perceive a stimulus, the other is the minimum difference required to perceive a change between the stimuli.
What is absolute threshold and difference threshold (JND)?
Deep in the temporal lobe (top rear head) this structure is critical for managing spatial navigation, consolidating short-term into long-term memories and declarative memories.
What is hippocampus?
Memory, learning, thoughts, schemas, assimilation, accommodation and speaking are terms associated with this approach of psychology.
What is cognitive psychology?
The type of influence characterized by not wanting to disrupt group harmony, and/or not wanting to stand out.
What is normative social influence?
Motor neurons start at the brain and spinal cord and received by muscles/glands. These neurons are also known as this.
What are efferent neurons?
Jumping into the pool your skin receptors sense coldness, and over time no longer feels cold, although water temperature has not changed
What is sensory adaptation?
Genetic traits, hereditary, and nature factors are major components in predisposing patterns of psyche development according to this life science view of psychology.
What is biological approach?