ch.1 - the science of psychology
Psychologist who did the little Albert experiment
Who is John Watson?
Part of the neuron that maintains the life of the cell
What is the soma?
Clear liquid that nourishes the eye
What is the aqueous humor?
Processing that happens without conscious awareness
What is implicit processing?
Study with 3 different groups of people with different ages
What is a cross-sectional study?
Perspective that combines social psychology and cultural psychology
What is the sociocultural perspective?
Neurotransmitter that is involved in sleep, mood, anxiety, and appetite
What is serotonin?
What is a sensory threshold?
7 to 9 hours of sleep
How many hours of sleep do young adults get?
A child's innate personality and emotional characteristics
What is temperament?
Psychologist known for structuralism
Who is Edward Titchener?
Line that runs between the medulla and the pons
What is the reticular formation?
Tiny packets of waves with specific wavelengths
What are photons?
Theory that proposes that sleep serves to replenish chemicals and repair cellular damage
What is the restorative theory?
Twins that come from 1 fertilized egg
Largest subfield of psychology
What is clinical psychology?
Lobe of the brain responsible for the sense of hearing
What is the temporal lobe?
Where the optic nerve leaves the eye
What is the blind spot?
Theory that assumes people who are hypnotized are not in an altered state
What is the social-cognitive theory of hypnosis?
Any factor that can cause a birth defect
What is a teratogen?
The first African American to earn a Ph.D in psychology
Who is Francis Cecil Sumner?
Brain stricture responsible for fear responses and memory of fear
What is the amygdala?
Tiny vibrations of the eye that people don't notice consciously
What are mircosaccades?
Increased amount of REM sleep after being deprived of REM sleep from earlier nights
What is REM rebound?
About 8 weeks after conception until the birth of the child
What is the fetal period?