What is the view that psychology should be an objective science?
100
neuron
What is a nerve cell?
100
consciousness
What is our awareness of ourselves and our enviroment?
200
psychology
What is the science of behavior and mental processes?
200
automatic nervous system
What is the part of the nervous system that controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs?
200
selective attention
What is it when your conscious awareness focuses, like a flashlight beam, on only a very limited aspect of all that you experience?
300
cognitive neuroscience
What is the study of the brain activity linked to the mental activity?
300
somatic nervous system
What is the part of the nervous system that enables voluntary control of our skeletal muscles?
300
circadian rhythm
What is it when our bodies roughly synchronize with the 24-hour cycle of day and night?
400
B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson
What is the name of two important behaviorists?
400
action potential
What is called when a neuron fires an impulse?
400
REM sleep
What is it when were sleeping and our eyes jerk?
500
Humanistic Psychology
What is a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individuals potential for personal growth?
500
Biological Psychology
What is the scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes?