Biopsychology
Sensation & Perception
States of Consciousness
Intelligence/Psych Testing
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100

This part of the neuron receives messages from neurotransmitters.

Dendrite

100

Visual information transfers to the brain via this.

Optic nerve

100

This condition makes  people stop breathing several times throughout the night when they sleep.

Sleep apnea

100

His Multiple Intelligence Theory included intelligences such as Intrapersonal, Musical, and Spacial.

Howard Gardner

100

This part of the  brain is involved in "fight or flight" response.

Amygdala

200

Meg can't form new memories.  She may have damage to this part of her brain.

Hippocampus

200

This allows humans to  understand depth in vision.

Binocular Fusion

200

This is the part of  the sleep cycle in which we dream.

REM Sleep

200

Refers to a test’s consistent ability to yield the same result under a variety of similar circumstances

Reliability

200

This is the only type of research method that can prove anything.

experiment

300

This section of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary movement.

Somatic Nervous System

300

This is the smallest  amount of detectable difference in a sensation.

Difference Threshold

300

LSD is this class of  drug

Hallucinogen

300

The Rorschach Inkblot test and the Thematic Apperception test are both this type of personality test, which is why a trained psychologist is required to administer these tests.

Projective Personality test

300
This job in psychology required a medical license.

Psychiatrist

400

This is a fancy name for the cell body.

Soma

400

Humans can understand that the major properties of a given object do not change just because the outside conditions change.  Ie, a pink shirt is still pink, even if it is in a dark room.

Constancy

400

This is NOT the same  as a nightmare, as it occurs in a different stage of sleep than REM sleep.

Night terrors

400

These intelligence tests provide an overall score plus separate scores for individual subtests.

Weschler Tests

400

Getting paid for  doing a job will provide this type of motivation

extrinsic motivation

500

This brain scan type is the only one that can show function.

PET (Positron Emission Tomography)

500

These three bones in the ear, collectively known as ossicles, are the smallest bones in the human body.

Hammer, anvil, and stirrup

500

In blind people, this  can vary, due to the inability to determine what time of day it is naturally.

Circadian Rhythm

500

This theory divides intelligence into 3 parts: Analytical, Creative, and Practical intelligences

Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory

500

This glad is the "master gland", and controls many other glands in the body.

Pituitary gland