Science abounds
Incudes a theory, hypothesis and research methods
What is the scientific method?
Awareness of selves and environment
What is Consciousness?
The 4 lobes
What are Frontal, Temporal, Parietal and Occipital?
Chemicals released from the sending neurons
What are neurotransmitter?
How our brains interpret external stimuli.
What is perception?
5 types of research methods
What are Naturalistic Observation, Correlation, Experimental,Case Study, and Survey
First half of the night benefits what?
What is the body?
Coordinates voluntary movements and balance
What is the cerebellum?
List these parts: What receives message, passes the message and insulates, speeds up transmission (3 terms)
What are Dendrites, Axons, and the Myelin Sheath?
3 types of learning
What is classical, operant and observational?
Statement of procedures for the research
What is Operational Definition?
Ability to control ones dream
What is Lucid Dreaming?
Hemisphere that holds the Brocca's and Wernickes
What is the left Hemisphere?
Terms for new connections made and connections that are replaced or disappear (2 terms).
Blooming and Pruning
The three steps included in the Information Processing Model
What is sensory memory, short term memory (working memory), and long term memory?
2 separate terms for "I knew it all along" and the expectations of the experimenter that influence the results
Hindsight Bias and Experimenter Expectancy
Includes Manifest and Latent Content
What is Freud's Dream Theory?
Found in the temporal lobe, plays a key
role in processing memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
A neural impulse
What is Action Potential?
Pick four out of the eight of Gardner's intelligences
Linguistic, Logical, Musical, Spatial, Bodily, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Naturalist.
Most frequent, average and middle scores
What is Central Tendency?
Amount of time that occurs during a sleep cycle
What is 90 minutes?
Oldest part of the brain
What is the brainstem?
Level of stimulation required to trigger an A.P.
What is +60?
List the 4 components of emotional intelligence.
What is Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness and Relationship management?