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