Intro to Human Behavior
It's the field of psychology concerned with how behaviors and psychological traits can have an effect on your physical health.
What is health psychology?
Review types of psychologists, fields of psychology.
It's the division of the nervous system that is comprised of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Know the divisions of the nervous system.
It's the mechanism by which experts in a scientific field carefully screen the work of their colleagues, which adds legitimacy and trust to research literature.
What is peer review?
It's the part of the eye that provides the glassy, outside covering. Don't get it scratched!
What is the cornea?
Know the physiology of senses (i.e., parts of the eye, ear, nose, mouth, muscles/skin that relate to sensation).
It's the place of business where the majority of psychologists work.
What is a university?
It's an overarching model used by Psychologists to understand that many behaviors can only be fully explained by combining three domains.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
They're the broad class of chemicals that stop the actions of neurotransmitters.
What are antagonists?
Know antagonist vs. agonists
Required for a study's participants to be considered a true experiment, it's the subset of individuals chosen from a larger set, in which all the subset has the same probability of being selected.
What is a random sample?
Know sample vs. population, random sampling, and convenience sampling.
Also known as "just noticeable," it designates the smallest change in stimuli that humans can perceive.
What is the difference threshold?
Know sensation and perception and terms of thresholds.
It's the process of converting physical or chemical stimulation into nerve impulses.
What is transduction?
It's the principle of all sciences that involves collecting observations, testing predictions about how to best explain the observations, and developing theories.
What is the scientific method?
Understand the scientific method, theories, hypotheses.
They're the tree-like part of the neuron responsible for receiving chemical transmissions from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Know the parts of the neuron and how they relate to neurotransmission (electrical and chemical).
It's the relationship that occurs between two variables when they are inversely related, such that when one increases, the other decreases--like my mood compared with number of hamsters consumed.
What is a negative correlation?
Though they aren't very effective in controlling long-term behavior, they can prime responses to following questions. Their examples include stimuli presented too quickly for the naked eye or too quiet for the ear to consistently detect.
What are subliminal messages?
Know their abilities and limitations.
It's the historical field of psychology that draws its emphases exclusively from observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
From the Latin word meaning "teacher" and derived from theologians who served as the first academics, it's the highest educational degree, which is required in the United States for an individual to legally be referred to using the protected term of psychologist.
What is a doctor?
It's the lobe of the cerebral cortex responsible for vision processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
Know the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, the parts of the limbic system, and their relative functions.
It's the measure of central tendency that shows what value appears most often in a set of data.
What is the mode?
Know terms of basic descriptive statistics.
They're the proper names of the sensation systems responsible for taste and smell.
What are gustation and olfaction?
In the cerebral cortex, it's the lobe that contains the psychosomatic cortex--responsible for sensations in various regions of the body corresponding to a sort of map located in this cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
It's the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the simplest set of elements.
What is the principle of parsimony or Occam's razor?
It's the neurotransmitter responsible for increasing heart rate and muscle tension, vasoconstriction, and mast cell stabilization--which comes in handy in the case of severe anaphylaxis.
What is epinephrine?
Know the most common neurotransmitters.
Based on the size of the sample, it's the likelihood that a study's statistical tests will be strong enough to reject a false null hypothesis.
What is statistical power?
Know the relationship between populations, samples sizes, statistics, and power.
The principle of "wholeness" or "fullness," research in this area demonstrates how we perceive and group images through processes like figure & ground, similarity, and proximity.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
They're the primary inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters.
What are GABA and glutamate?