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first test for psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the scientific study of behavior and the mental process | psychology |
| wat are the 4 goals of psychology | description, understanding, prediction, and control |
| father of psychology, establlished the first psychiactric lab in 1879 | wilhelm wundt |
| unconscious | psychoanalysis |
| observable behaviorism | John B. Watson |
| human nature, free will | humanism |
| the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental process | biopsychological |
| perspective that focuses on the relationship b/t social behavior and cultured | sociocultured |
| medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders | psychiatrist |
| system of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced | scientific method |
| tenative explanation of a phenomenon vased on observation | hypothesis |
| watching something in its natural environment | naturalistic observation |
| study of 1 individual in great detail | case study |
| a measure of the relationship b/t 2 variables | correlation |
| +1.00&-1.00 | correlation range |
| +.89&-.89=same | direction of correlation |
| variable in a experiment that is manipulated by the experiment | independent variable |
| attatched to the soma & sends messages to the brain | axon |
| chemical found in the synaptic vescles that, when released, has an effect on the next cell | neurotransmitter |
| part of the ANS that is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousal | sympothetic division(fight or flight) |
| part of the ANS that restores the body to normal functioning after arousal and is responsible for the day to day functioning of the organs and glands | parasympothetic division |
| link b/t the brain and glanorial system | hypothamus |
| right brain | faces |
| left brain | names |
| actions are like the actions of hormones | neurotransmitters |
| the process that occurs when special receptors in the sence organs of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain | senstation |
| the lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50% of the time the stimulation is present | absolute threshold |
| tendancy of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging info | habituation |
| constant movement of the eyes, tiny little vibrations | microsaccades |
| sight does not | habituate |
| the portion of the whole spectrum of light that is visible to the human eye | visible spectrum |
| color part of the eye that controls the pupil | iris |
| visual sensory recepptors found at the back of the retina, responsible for noncolor sensitivity to low levels of light | cones |
| no cones or cones that are not working at all | monochrome color blindness |
| either the red or green cones are not working | red-green color blindness |
| middle ear/eardrum | conduction hearing |
| inner ear/auditory | nerve hearing |
| treatment of nerve hearing damage | cochlear implant |
| 5 primary tastes | sweet sour salty bitter and umami |
| the sensation of smell | olfactory sence |
| sense of the location of body parts in relation to the ground and each other | kinesthetic sense |
| the sensations of movement, balance, and body position | vestibular senses |
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