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Sensation and Perception
Development
The Brain
Research Methods
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What are the four primary sensory experiences that make up taste?
Salty, Sweet, Bitter, Sour
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Thanatology is the study of ________________________
Death
100
What is the central nervous system?
The brain and spinal cord
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What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess.
200
What is figure ground perception in regards to sound?
Can follow one person's voice in noisy room; can distinguish between the sound and background noise.
200
Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is reached during adolescence?
formal operations
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What band of fibers connects the cerebral hemispheres?
Corpus Callosum
200
What is the cardinal rule in naturalistic observation?
Do not disturb the subject or let them know you are observing.
200
Who studied the unconscious mind?
Freud
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What is it called when our senses fill in the gaps?
Perceptual Inference
300
Ainsworth discovered which patters of attachment
All of them
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What part of the brain is last to develop?
The frontal lobe
300
What is a longitudinal study?
Study over a long period of time (a lifetime)
300
What characterizes the stages of sleep?
altered state of consciousness, unresponsiveness to environmental, limited physical mobility, and REM
400
Overstimulation of the ______ can result in dizziness and motion sickness.
vestibular system
400
The major theory of adolescence is presented to adolescence as a stage characterized by storm and ____________.
Stress
400
What are the parts of a neuron?
Axon, Dendrite, Cell Body, Axon Terminal
400
What is a double blind study?
The researcher or participant does not know who has the independent variable.
400
Maslow and Rogers are associated with what type of psychology?
Humanistic
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What are the Gestalt principles?
Similarity, Continuity, Closure, Proximity, Figure and Ground
500
What is the Moro reflex
The child is startled and arms and legs flail.
500
Name the parts of the peripheral nervous system.
Somatic NS, autonomic NS, and nerves from spinal cord.
500
What is the difference between an independent variable and a dependent variable?
Independent= Manipulate Dependent= depends on changes of independent
500
What are drugs that relieve anxiety called?
tranquilizers