The Psychological Mind The Biological Mind The Perceiving Mind Misc 1
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
It accelerates an action potential’s movement.
What is Myelin
100
Messages from the senses that make up the raw information that affects many kinds of behavior and mental processes.
What are sensations?
100
In-depth examinations of one person or a small number of unusual people.
What are case studies?
200
The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking."
What is cognitive psychology?
200
The division of the autonomic nervous system associated with rest, repair, and energy storage.
What is parasympathetic nervous system
200
The difference in the peak and the baseline of a waveform.
What is amplitude?
200
The endocrine system is comprised of a number of glands that release chemical messengers.
What are hormones?
300
This is the variable being observed in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The main divisions of the human nervous system.
What are the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.
300
The smallest amount of stimulus that can be detected.
What is absolute threshold?
300
Highly light-sensitive but color-insensitive photoreceptors in the retina that allow vision even in dim light
What are rods?
400
A measure of the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation?
400
What is the parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe and frontal lobe
The brain is "divided" into what 4 sections.
400
An opening in the eye, just behind the cornea, through which light passes
What is the pupil?
400
The brain uses incoming signals to construct perceptions.
What is the bottom-up processing?
500
The brain and its activities
What is the mind?
500
A neurotransmitter in brain circuits supporting anticipation of rewards, such as food, sex, and many addictive drugs.
What is dopamine
500
A theory of color vision stating that color-sensitive visual elements are grouped into red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white elements.
What is the opponent-process theory?
500
1) Intensity of stimulus
2) Observer's physical and psychological state
What are the two steps in signal detection?






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