Brain and Nervous System
This lobe is primarily responsible for vision.
What is The Occipital Lobe?
A disorder characterized by extreme mood swings between mania and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A research method that measures behavior in a natural setting without intervention.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
The type of memory used to remember a phone number just told to you for immediate use.
What is Short-term (working) Memory?
The tendency to focus on one sense while ignoring others.
What is Selective Attention?
This brain structure helps form new memories.
What is The Hippocampus?
A disorder involving significant fear of social situations due to fear of negative evaluation.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
A measure that shows a relationship between two variables.
What is Correlation?
This explains why people conform to group opinions.
What is Social Influence?
This explains why you stop noticing a smell after being in a room for a while.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
This brain structure is involved in emotions like fear and aggression.
What is The Amygdala?
A disorder characterized by panic attacks and fear of future attacks.
What is Construct Validity?
The bias causes people to favor information that supports their beliefs.
What is Confirmation Bias?
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus.
What is Absolute Threshold?
This chemical messenger transmits signals across synapses.
What is a Neurotransmitter?
This personality disorder is marked by instability in mood, relationships, and self-image.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A research method that studies one individual in depth.
What is a Case Study?
The psychological reason that multitasking reduces performance.
What is Divided Attention?
The ability to see objects in three dimensions and judge distance.
What is Depth Perception?
The brain's outer layer responsible for thinking and decision-making.
What is The Cerebral Cortex?
This disorder involves dissociation and the presence of two or more distinct personality states.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
When a participant's expectations influence their behavior in a study.
What is The Placebo Effect?
A coping strategy that involves changing how you think about a situation.
What is Cognitive Reappraisal?
This theory states that perception is driven by sensory input from the environment.
What is Bottom-up Processing?