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| 6685198788 | psychology | the study of behavior and mental processes | 0 | |
| 6685198789 | psychology's biggest question | Which is more important in determining behavior, nature or nurture? | 1 | |
| 6685198790 | psychology's three levels of analysis | biopsychosocial approach (looks at the biological, psychological, and social-cultural approaches together) | 2 | |
| 6685198791 | biological approach | genetics, close-relatives, body functions | 3 | |
| 6685198792 | evolutionary approach | species - helped with survival (ancestors) | 4 | |
| 6685198793 | psychodynamic approach | (Freud) subconscious, repressed feelings, unfulfilled wishes | 5 | |
| 6685198794 | behavioral approach | learning (classical and operant) observed | 6 | |
| 6685198795 | cognitive approach | thinking affects behavior | 7 | |
| 6685198796 | humanistic approach | becoming a better human (behavior, acceptance) | 8 | |
| 6685198797 | social-cultural approach | cultural, family, environment | 9 | |
| 6685198801 | case study | studies one person in depth may not be typical of population | 10 | |
| 6685198802 | survey | studies lots of people not in depth | 11 | |
| 6685198803 | naturalistic observation | observe + write facts without interference | 12 | |
| 6685198804 | correlational method | shows relation, but not cause/effect scatterplots show research | 13 | |
| 6685198805 | correlation coefficient | + 1.0 (both increase) 0 (no correlation - 1.0 (one increases, other decreases) | 14 | |
| 6685198806 | experimental method | does show cause and effect | 15 | |
| 6685198807 | population | type of people who are going to be used in experiment | 16 | |
| 6685198808 | sample | actual people who will be used (randomness reduces bias) | 17 | |
| 6685198809 | random assignment | chance selection between experimental and control groups | 18 | |
| 6685198810 | control group | not receiving experimental treatment receives placebo | 19 | |
| 6685198811 | experimental group | receiving treatment/drug | 20 | |
| 6685198812 | independent variable | drug/procedure/treatment | 21 | |
| 6685198813 | dependent variable | outcome of using the drug/treatment | 22 | |
| 6685198814 | confounding variable | can affect dependent variable beyond experiment's control | 23 | |
| 6685198815 | scientific method | theory hypothesis operational definition revision | 24 | |
| 6685198816 | theory | general idea being tested | 25 | |
| 6685198817 | hypothesis | measurable/specific | 26 | |
| 6685198818 | operational definition | procedures that explain components | 27 | |
| 6685198819 | mode | appears the most | 28 | |
| 6685198820 | mean | average | 29 | |
| 6685198821 | median | middle | 30 | |
| 6685198822 | range | highest - lowest | 31 | |
| 6685198823 | standard deviation | how scores vary around the mean | 32 | |
| 6685198824 | central tendency | single score that represents the whole | 33 | |
| 6685198825 | bell curve | (natural curve) |  | 34 |
| 6685198828 | sensory neurons | travel from sensory receptors to brain | 35 | |
| 6685198829 | motor neurons | travel from brain to "motor" workings | 36 | |
| 6685198830 | interneurons | (in brain and spinal cord) connecting motor and sensory neurons | 37 | |
| 6685198831 | neuron |  | 38 | |
| 6685198832 | dendrites | receive messages from other neurons | 39 | |
| 6685198833 | myelin sheath | protects the axon | 40 | |
| 6685198834 | axon | where charges travel from cell body to axon terminal | 41 | |
| 6685198835 | neurotransmitters | chemical messengers | 42 | |
| 6685198836 | reuptake | extra neurotransmitters are taken back | 43 | |
| 6685198837 | excitatory charge | "Let's do it!" | 44 | |
| 6685198838 | inhibitory charge | "Let's not do it!" | 45 | |
| 6685198839 | central nervous system | brain and spinal cord | 46 | |
| 6685198840 | peripheral nervous system | somatic nervous system autonomic nervous system | 47 | |
| 6685198841 | somatic nervous system | voluntary movements | 48 | |
| 6685198842 | autonomic nervous system | involuntary movements (sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems) | 49 | |
| 6685198843 | sympathetic nervous system | arousing | 50 | |
| 6685198844 | parasympathetic nervous system | calming | 51 | |
| 6685198846 | spinal cord | expressway of information bypasses brain when reflexes involved | 52 | |
| 6685198847 | endocrine system | slow uses hormones in the blood system | 53 | |
| 6685198848 | master gland | pituitary gland | 54 | |
| 6685198849 | brainstem | extension of the spinal cord responsible for automatic survival | 55 | |
| 6685198853 | thalamus | sensory switchboard (does not process smell) | 56 | |
| 6685198854 | hypothalamus | basic behaviors (hunger, thirst, sex, blood chemistry) | 57 | |
| 6685198855 | cerebellum | nonverbal memory, judge time, balance emotions, coordinate movements | 58 | |
| 6685198857 | amygdala | aggression, fear, and memory associated with these emotions | 59 | |
| 6685198860 | hippocampus | process new memory | 60 | |
| 6685198861 | cerebrum | two large hemispheres perceiving, thinking, and processing | 61 | |
| 6685198863 | association areas | integrate and interpret information | 62 | |
| 6685198864 | glial cells | provide nutrients to myelin sheath marks intelligence higher proportion of glial cells to neurons | 63 | |
| 6685198865 | frontal lobe | judgement, personality, processing (Phineas Gage accident) | 64 | |
| 6685198866 | parietal lobe | math and spatial reasoning | 65 | |
| 6685198867 | temporal lobe | audition and recognizing faces | 66 | |
| 6685198868 | occipital lobe | vision | 67 | |
| 6685198869 | corpus callosum | split in the brain to stop hyper-communication (eliminate epileptic seizures) | 68 | |
| 6685198870 | Wernicke's area | interprets auditory and hearing | 69 | |
| 6685198871 | Broca's area | speaking words | 70 | |
| 6685198872 | plasticity | ability to adapt if damaged | 71 | |
| 6685198873 | sensation | what our senses tell us | 72 | |
| 6685198874 | bottom-up processing | senses to brain | 73 | |
| 6685198875 | perception | what our brain tells us to do with that information | 74 | |
| 6685198876 | top-down processing | brain to senses | 75 | |
| 6685198877 | inattentional blindness | fail to "gorilla" because attention is elsewhere | 76 | |
| 6685198878 | cocktail party effect | even with tons of stimuli, we are able to pick out our name, etc. | 77 | |
| 6685198879 | change blindness | giving directions and person is changed and we don't notice | 78 | |
| 6685198880 | choice blindness | when defending the choice we make, we fail to notice choice was changed | 79 | |
| 6685198881 | absolute threshold | minimum stimulation needed in order to notice 50% of the time | 80 | |
| 6685198882 | signal detection theory | we notice what is more important to us (rather hear a baby crying) | 81 | |
| 6685198883 | JND (just noticeable difference) | (Weber's law) difference between different stimuli noticed in proportion | 82 | |
| 6685198884 | sensory adaptation | tired of noticing (Brain says, "Been there, done that. Next?" | 83 | |
| 6685198885 | rods | night time | 84 | |
| 6685198886 | cones | color | 85 | |
| 6685198887 | parallel processing | notice color, form, depth, movement, etc. | 86 | |
| 6685198888 | Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory | 3 corresponding color receptors (RGB) | 87 | |
| 6685198889 | opponent-process theory | after image in opposite colors (RG, YB, WB) | 88 | |
| 6685198893 | frequency theory | impulse frequency (low pitches) | 89 | |
| 6685198896 | gate-control theory | small fibers - pain large fibers - other senses | 90 | |
| 6685198903 | consciousness | awareness of ourselves and the environment | 91 | |
| 6685198904 | circadian rhythm | daily biological clock and regular cycle (sleep and awake) | 92 | |
| 6685198910 | insomnia | can't sleep | 93 | |
| 6685198911 | narcolepsy | fall asleep anywhere at anytime | 94 | |
| 6685198912 | sleep apnea | stop breathing in sleep | 95 | |
| 6685198918 | depressants | slows neural pathways | 96 | |
| 6685198919 | alcohol | ((depressant)) disrupts memory formation (REM) lowers inhibition expectancy effect | 97 | |
| 6685198920 | barbituates (tranquilizers) | ((depressant)) reduce anxiety | 98 | |
| 6685198921 | opiates | ((depressant)) pleasure reduce anxiety/pain | 99 | |
| 6685198922 | stimulants | hypes neural processing | 100 | |
| 6685198923 | methamphetamine | ((stimulant)) heightens energy euphoria affects dopamine | 101 | |
| 6685198924 | caffeine | ((stimulant)) | 102 | |
| 6685198925 | nicotine | ((stimulant)) CNS releases neurotransmitters calm anxiety reduce pain affects (nor)epinephrine and dopamine | 103 | |
| 6685198926 | cocaine | ((stimulant)) euphoria affects dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine | 104 | |
| 6685198927 | hallucinogen | excites neural activity | 105 | |
| 6685198928 | ecstasy | ((hallucinogen)) reuptake is blocked affects dopamine and serotonin | 106 | |
| 6685198929 | LSD | ((hallucinogen)) affects sensory/emotional "trip" (+/-) affects serotonin | 107 | |
| 6685198930 | marijuana | ((hallucinogen)) amplify sensory experience disrupts memory formation | 108 | |
| 6685198964 | habituation | get used to it -> stop reacting | 109 | |
| 6685198967 | LTP | ((long-term potentiation)) strengthens potential neural forming (associated with speed) | 110 | |
| 6685198971 | flashbulb memory | type of memory remembered because it was an important/quick moment | 111 | |
| 6685198975 | memory | learning over time contains information that can be retrieved | 112 | |
| 6685198977 | encoding | information going in | 113 | |
| 6685198978 | storage | keeping information in | 114 | |
| 6685198979 | retrieval | taking information out | 115 | |
| 6685198980 | How long is sensory memory stored? | seconds | 116 | |
| 6685198981 | How long is short-term memory stored? | less than a minute | 117 | |
| 6685198982 | How many bits of information is stored in short-term memory? | 7 | 118 | |
| 6685198986 | working memory | make a connection and process information to mean something | 119 | |
| 6685198988 | How much is stored in long-term memory? | LIMITLESS | 120 | |
| 6685198989 | implicit memory | naturally do | 121 | |
| 6685198990 | explicit memory | need to explain | 122 | |
| 6685198991 | automatic processing | space, time, frequency, well-learned information | 123 | |
| 6685198992 | effortful processing | processing that requires effort | 124 | |
| 6685198993 | spacing effect | spread out learning over time | 125 | |
| 6685198994 | serial position effect | primary/recency effect | 126 | |
| 6685198995 | primacy effect | remember the first things in a list | 127 | |
| 6685198996 | recency effect | remember the last things in a list | 128 | |
| 6685198998 | semantic encoding (1) meaning (2) how to | make meaning out of something --- chunk, hierarchy, or connect to you | 129 | |
| 6685199000 | misinformation effect | not correct information | 130 | |
| 6685199002 | source amnesia | what is the truth? (is it a dream, story, memory, etc.?) | 131 | |
| 6685199003 | priming | association (setting you up) | 132 | |
| 6685199005 | state-dependency | you may remember something if you go back to the state you were in (go back to high) | 133 | |
| 6685199006 | mood-congruency | emotion will bring back similar emotional memories | 134 | |
| 6685199009 | proactive interference | old information interferes with the new | 135 | |
| 6685199010 | retroactive interference | new information interferes with the old | 136 | |
| 6685199016 | mental set | what has worked in the past | 137 |
