Cuckoos nest
An anxiety disorder where an irrational fear causes someone to avoid a certain situation
What is phobia
Experimental result caused by expectations alone
What is the placebo effect
This part of the brain stem controls heartbeat and breathing
What is the medulla
The black spot in the eye through which light enters
What is the pupil
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
what is a heuristic
Disorder where symptoms occur with no physical cause
What is somatoform
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
what is hindsight bias
What lobe receives info from your visual field
What is occipital lobe
The part of the eye which produces color sensations
What are cones
Mental image or best example of a prototype
What is prototype
People with bipolar disorder alternate between depression and_____
What is Mania
A variable other than the independent variable that could influence the dependent variable
What is a confounding variable
The brains ability to shape and mold itself
what is plasticity
The Point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye
What is the blindspot
Overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
What is overconfidence
High levels of which neurotransmitter can be found in the brain of patients with schizophrenia
What is dopamine
Measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
What is standard deviation
Damage to this area of the brain causes the person to speak in only meaningless phrases
What is Wernizkes area
The process by which the eyes lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina
What is accommodations
A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially one that has been successful in the past
what is mental set
Depressed people stay depressed when self defeating beliefs arise from __________
What is learned helplessness
A belief that others share the same opinion about something, when actually most dont
what is false consensus
This hemisphere is activated when one speaks or calculates
What is Left
The differences between the visual images that each eye perceives because of the different angles in which each eye views the world
What is retinal disparity
Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
What is belief perseverance