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A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century.
What is the Scientific Method
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This is the scientific study of the nervous system.
What is Neurosciece
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This is the physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body.
What is a sensation?
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This is your immediate awareness of thoughts, sensations, memories, and the world around you.
What is Consciousness?
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This is the process that produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of an individual’s experience.
What is Learning
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The scientific study of the human mind and it's functions
What is Psychology
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This cell is highly specialized to receive and transmit information from one part of the body to another.
What is a Neuron
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This is the general decline in sensitivity to a constant stimulus.
What is Sensory Adaptation
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This is the capacity to selectively focus senses and awareness on particular stimuli or aspects of the environment.
What is Attention
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This is the process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses.
What is Conditioning
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The branch of science that psychology emerged from
What is Physiology
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This neurotransmitter affects emotional states, sleep, and sensory perception
What is Serotonin
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This is the part of the brain used for vision.
What is the optical lobe?
300
This is all the biological processes that happen on a twenty four hour cycle.
What is Circadian Rhythm
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This is the psychologist that first discovered and researched operant conditioning.
Who is B. F. Skinner
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Who was the main contributor of Structuralism?
Who is Edward B Titchner
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This disorder is associated with a lack of acetylcholine.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
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This psychology emphasizes that humans perceive whole objects or figures rather than isolated bits.
What is Gestalt Psychology
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this is the feeling that comes from someone being out of sync with their regular circadian rhythm.
What is Jet Lag
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This is the strengthening of a behavior through the presentation of a stimulus as a consequence of the behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement
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This perspective focuses on studying ways for which people cans trive to reach their own potential.
What is the humanistic perspective
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This is the point of communication between two neurons.
What is a Synapse?
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This is the process by which a form of physical energy is converted into a coded neural signal that can then be processed by the nervous system.
What is Transduction
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This is the time during which heightened brain and body activity occur, resulting in this stage of sleep consistently being the stage which we dream.
What is REM Sleep
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This is the strengthening of a behavior through the removal of a stimulus as a consequence of the behavior.
What is Negative Reinforcement