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Psych Final Vocb
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Quotient | mental age over physical age times 100 |
| Sociocultural Perspective | in psychology, the perspective that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior, and mental processes |
| Stroboscopic Motion | a visual illusion in which the perception of motion is generated by the presentation of a series of stationary images in rapid succession |
| Psychoanalytic Perspective | the perspective that stresses the influences of unconscious forces on human behavior |
| Operant Conditioning | people and animals learn to do certain things, and not to do with others, because of the results of what they do |
| Central Nervous System | the part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and the spinal chord |
| Photoreceptor | Neurons that are sensitive to light |
| Absolute Threshold | the weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed |
| Perception | the psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation |
| Ethics | standards for proper and responsible behavior |
| Depressants | a drug that reduces neural activity and slows body function |
| Functionalism | the schools of psychology, founded by William James, that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental processes |
| Stimulus | something that produces a reaction or a response |
| Hormones | chemicals produced by the endocrine glands the regulate specific body functions |
| Survey | people are asked to respond to a series of questions about a particular subject |
| Insomnia | The inability to sleep |
| Chuncking | the organization of items into familiar or manageable units |
| Control Group | in an experiment, they do not receive treatment |
| Heuristics | rules of thumb that often, but not always, help us find the solution to a problem |
| Sensation | the stimulation or sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the brain |
| Heritability | a proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes |
| Hypothesis | an educated guess |
| Cerebrum | the large mass of the forebrain, consisting of two hemispheres |
| Decay | the fading away of a memory |
| Syntax | the way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences |
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