This subfield of psychology examines how people grow and change from the moment of conception through death
What is Developmental Psychology?
100
The approach through which psychologists systematically acquire knowledge and under-standing about behavior and other phenomena of interest.
What is a scientific method?
100
Nerve cells, the basic elements of the nervous system.
What are neurons?
100
The sorting out, interpretation, analysis, and integration of stimuli by the sense organs and brain.
What is perception?
100
The state of transition between wakefulness and sleep,
characterized by relatively rapid, low-amplitude brain waves.
What is stage-1 sleep?
200
This subfield of psychology is devoted to counseling children in elementary and secondary schools who have academic or emotional problems.
What is School Psychology?
200
Broad explanations and predictions concerning phenomena
of interest.
What are theories?
200
Small bulges at the end of axons that send messages to
other neurons.
What are terminal buttons?
200
The smallest intensity of a stimulus that must be
present for the stimulus to be detected.
What is absolute threshold?
200
The deepest stage of sleep, during which we are least
responsive to outside stimulation.
What is stage-4 sleep?
300
This subfield of psychology deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders.
What is Clinical Psychology?
300
A prediction, stemming from a theory, stated in a way that
allows it to be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The part of the brain that controls eating, aggression, and
reproduction.
What is the limbic system?
300
The smallest level of added or reduced stimulation required
to sense that a change in stimulation has occurred.
What is difference threshold (or Just noticeable difference threshold)?
300
Sleep occupying 20% of an adult’s sleeping time, characterized by increased heart rate, blood pressure, and
breathing rate; erections; eye movements; and the experience of dreaming.
What is REM (rapid eye movement) sleep?
400
An early approach to psychology, led by William James, that
concentrated on what the mind does—the functions of mental activity—and the role of behavior in allowing people to adapt to their environments.
What is Functionalism?
400
The translation of a hypothesis into specific, testable procedures that can be measured and observed.
What is an operational definition?
400
A procedure in which a person learns to control through conscious thought internal physiological processes such as blood pressure, heart and respiration rate, skin temperature,
sweating, and the constriction of particular muscles.
What is biofeedback?
400
An adjustment in sensory capacity after prolonged exposure to unchanging stimuli.
What is adaptation?
400
Sigmund Freud’s theory that dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled.
What is unconscious wish fulfillment theory?
500
The approach based on the view that behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces over which the individual
has little control.
What is psychodynamic perspective?
500
Research in which existing data, such as census documents,
college records, online databases, and newspaper clippings, are examined to test a hypothesis.
What is an archival research?
500
The dominance of one hemisphere of the brain in specific
functions, such as language.
What is lateralization?
500
Specialized neurons that are activated only by visual stimuli
having specific features, such as a particular shape or pattern.
What are feature detectors?
500
Dream scenario that is constructed is related to
dreamer’s concerns