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| 6729866287 | EEG | detects brain waves. Examine what type of waves the brain produces during different stages of conciousness. | 0 | |
| 6729866288 | CAT | sophisticated x-ray. Can only show brain structure. | 1 | |
| 6729866289 | MRI | more detailed CAT, uses magnetic fields. Not exposed to radiation like CAT scan. | 2 | |
| 6729866290 | PET | See what areas of the brain are active during certain tasks. Measures chemicals. | 3 | |
| 6729866291 | FMRI | combines MRI and PET. Shows details of brain structure and chemical activity. | 4 | |
| 6729866292 | Pons | Controls facial expression | 5 | |
| 6729866293 | Cerebellum | Voluntary motor function | 6 | |
| 6729866294 | Adrenal glands | Produce adrenaline | 7 | |
| 6729866295 | Klinefelters syndrome | Extra X chromosome, minimal sexual development and extreme introversion. | 8 | |
| 6729866296 | Turners syndrome | Born with signal X chromosome where twenty third pair is. Shortness, webbed neck, sexual development. | 9 | |
| 6729866297 | Somatic nervous systwm | Controls voluntary muscle movement | 10 | |
| 6729866298 | Autonomic nervous systwm | Automatic functions of the body, response to stress. Divided into sympathetic and para sympathetic. | 11 | |
| 6729866299 | Sympathetic nervous system | Mobilizes stress response. Alert system | 12 | |
| 6729866300 | Parasympathetic nervous sysyem | Slows down body after stress. | 13 | |
| 6729866301 | Peripheral nervous sytem | All nerves not cased in bone. Divided into somatic and autonomic. | 14 | |
| 6729866302 | Central nervous system | All nerves in bone. Brain and spinal cord. | 15 | |
| 6729951337 | Terminal button | The branched end of the axon that contains neurotransmitters. | 16 | |
| 6729951338 | APA ethical guide lines (human) | Voluntary, consent, anonymous, low risk, debrief | 17 | |
| 6729951339 | APA ethical guide lines (animal) | Purpose, care and house humanely, least amount of Suffering. Legal animals. | 18 | |
| 6729951340 | Inferential statistics | To determine whether or not findings can be applied to the larger population. | 19 | |
| 6729951341 | Correlation coefficient | Strength of a correlation. Range from -1 to +1. (-1 perfect negative, +1 perfect positive, 0 weakest correlation) | 20 | |
| 6732038831 | Solomon asch | Social psychology, conformity and impression formation experiments | 21 | |
| 6732038832 | Albert bandura | Learning& personality social learning theory (modeling) reciprocal determinism; self efficacy | 22 | |
| 6732038833 | Albert Ellis | Treatments of psychological disorders (rebt) | 23 | |
| 6732038834 | Erik Erikson | Developmental psychology psychosocial stage theory of development (identity) | 24 | |
| 6732038835 | Freud | Psychosexual stage theory of personality; unconscious, dreams ect | 25 | |
| 6732038836 | Harry Harlow | Development psychology, attachment studies with infant monkeys | 26 | |
| 6732038837 | Kohlberg | Developmental, moral development(Heinz dilemma) | 27 | |
| 6732038838 | Maslow | Hierarchy of needs; self actualization | 28 | |
| 6732038839 | Milgram | Obedience shock study | 29 | |
| 6732038840 | Pavlov | Dogs, classical conditioning | 30 | |
| 6732038841 | Piaget | Stage theory of cognitive development | 31 | |
| 6732038842 | Rogers | Person centered psychology, unconditional positive regard | 32 | |
| 6732038843 | Skinner | Operant conditioning, reinforcement | 33 | |
| 6732038844 | Watspn | Behavioralism, baby Albert | 34 | |
| 6732038845 | Wundt | First laboratory, structuralism | 35 | |
| 6732038846 | Structuralism | The idea that the mind operates by combining subjective emotions and objective sensations. Introspection | 36 | |
| 6732038847 | Gestalt psychology | Examined a persons total experience because the way we experience the world is "more that just an accumulation of various perceptual experiences. | 37 | |
| 6732038848 | Counter balancing | Doing a scientific experiment in different orders | 38 | |
| 6732038849 | Confounding variable | Any difference between the experimental and the control groups. | 39 | |
| 6732038850 | Behavioralism | Look at only behavior and causes of behavior. | 40 | |
| 6732038851 | Transduction | Signals are transformed into neural impulses | 41 | |
| 6732038852 | Sensory adaptation | Getting used to a stimuli, less responsive | 42 | |
| 6732038853 | Sensory habituation | How focused we are on stimuli | 43 | |
| 6732038854 | Cornea | Helps focus light | 44 | |
| 6732038855 | Pupil | "Camera shutter" lets more light in or shuts light out | 45 | |
| 6732038856 | Lens | Focuses light | 46 | |
| 6732038857 | Retina | Image projects on this | 47 | |
| 6732038858 | Fovea | Contains highest concentration of cones. | 48 | |
| 6732038859 | Nerve deafness | Hair cells in cochlea are damaged, usually by loud noise | 49 | |
| 6732038860 | Conduction deafness | When something goes wrong with system of conducting sound into cochlea. | 50 | |
| 6732038861 | Vestibular sense | How our body is oriented in space | 51 | |
| 6732038862 | Kinesthetic sense | Overall orientation of the body | 52 | |
| 6732038863 | Webers law | Smallest amount of change we can detect in a stimuli | 53 | |
| 6732038864 | Bottom up processing | Only use the features of object to build complete perception | 54 | |
| 6732038865 | Top down processing | When you use background knowledge to fill in gaps of what you perceive | 55 | |
| 6732038866 | Preconscious level | Info about self or environment that you aren't currently thinking of. | 56 | |
| 6732038867 | Subconscious levwl | Info we are not aware of consciously but know must exist due to behavior | 57 | |
| 6732038868 | Chaining | Animals can be taught to preform a number of things successively in order to get reward | 58 | |
| 6732038869 | Premack principal | If something is more tolerable it will be more easily learned | 59 | |
| 6732038870 | Three box/info processing model | Sensory ->short term-> long term | 60 | |
| 6732038871 | Iconic memory | Spilt second photograph of a scene | 61 | |
| 6732038872 | Echoic memory | Brief memory for sounds | 62 | |
| 6732038873 | Types of long term memoey | Episodic(specific events), semantic(world knowledge, facts), procedural(skills and how to preform them) | 63 | |
| 6732038874 | Anterograde amnesia | Cannot encode new memories but can remember old | 64 | |
| 6732038875 | Yerkes Dodson law | Medium arousal level | 65 | |
| 6732038876 | Cannon bard | Simultaneous | 66 | |
| 6732038877 | James Lange | Arousal creates emotion | 67 | |
| 6732038878 | Two factoe | Both psychical and cognitive labeling create emotional response. | 68 | |
| 6732038879 | Idiographic theorist | Using same set of traits to classify all people is possible | 69 | |
| 6732038880 | Barnum effect | Vague things like horoscopes | 70 | |
| 6732038881 | Acetylcholine | Motor movement (lack is associated with Alzheimer's) | 71 | |
| 6732038882 | Dopamine | Motor movement and alertness (excess: schizophrenia lack: Parkinson's) | 72 | |
| 6732038883 | Endorphins | Pain control (involved in addictions) | 73 | |
| 6732038884 | Serotonin | Mood control (lack associated with depression) | 74 | |
| 6732038885 | GABA | inhibitory neurotransmitter (seizures, sleep problems) | 75 | |
| 6732038886 | Glutamate | Excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory (migraines and seizures) | 76 | |
| 6732038887 | Norepinephrine | Alertness,arousal (depression) | 77 |
