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| 7911020826 | frontal lobe | the portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements | 0 | |
| 7911033505 | parietal lobe | the portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for touch and body postion | 1 | |
| 7911053171 | occipital lobe | the portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; include the visual areas, which receive visual information from the opposite field | 2 | |
| 7911065363 | temporal lobe | the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears; includes the auditory areas, each of which receives auditory information from the opposite ear | 3 | |
| 7911088289 | alpha waves | the relatively slow brainwaves of relaxed, awake state | 4 | |
| 7911098043 | amygdala | two lima bean sized neural clusters that are components of the limbic system and are linked to emotion | 5 | |
| 7911110165 | aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding) | 6 | |
| 7911128795 | authoritative parenting | parents set limits and enforce rules but are flexible and listen to their children | 7 | |
| 7911137893 | authoritarian parenting | style of parenting marked by emotional coldness, imposing rules and expecting obedience | 8 | |
| 7911144188 | behaviour genetics | the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour | 9 | |
| 7911154102 | Broca's Area | controls language and expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movement and speech | 10 | |
| 7911165029 | Wernicke's Area | controls language reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe | 11 | |
| 7911183728 | cerebellum | the "little brain" attached to the rear of the brainstem; its functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output balance | 12 | |
| 7911200227 | classical conditioning | a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus | 13 | |
| 7911250392 | cones | retinal cells that are concentrated near the centre of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions. the cones detect fine detail and give rise to colour sensations | 14 | |
| 7911274311 | crystallised intelligence | one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skill; tends to INCREASE wit age | 15 | |
| 7911287299 | delta wave | the large, slow brainwaves associated with deep sleep | 16 | |
| 7911298390 | depth perception | the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional; allows us to judge distance | 17 | |
| 7911309313 | endorphins | "morphine within" - natural opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure | 18 | |
| 7911323751 | fluid intelligence | one's ability to to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to DECREASE during late adulthood | 19 | |
| 7911343140 | freud's wish fulfilment **** | dreams are attempts by the unconscious to resolve some repressed conflict | 20 | |
| 7911365299 | garcia and koellings study **** | taste aversion | 21 | |
| 7911383652 | proximity | we group nearby figures together | 22 | |
| 7911399458 | similarity | the tendency to perceive things that look similar to each other as being part of the same group | 23 | |
| 7911416962 | continuation | elements that appear to flow or follow in the same direction are grouped together | 24 | |
| 7911427594 | closure | the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete | 25 | |
| 7911430022 | figure and ground | organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings | 26 | |
| 7911435429 | gestalt principles |  | 27 | |
| 7911443624 | hippocampus | a neural center located in the limbic system that helps process EXPLICIT memories for storage | 28 | |
| 7911455975 | hypothalamus | a neural structure lying below the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities (eating, drinking, body temperature) helps govern the endorphins system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion | 29 | |
| 7911477664 | interposition | a monocular depth cue in which one object partly covering another is assumed to be closer in distance | 30 | |
| 7911492791 | kinesthesis | the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts | 31 | |
| 7911503564 | melatonin | a hormone manufactured by the pineal gland that produces sleepiness | 32 | |
| 7911525641 | case studies | an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles | 33 | |
| 7911542181 | survey | a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviours of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them | 34 | |
| 7911559687 | naturalistic observation | observing and recording behaviour in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation | 35 | |
| 7911572635 | experiment | a research method in which an investigator manipulates on or more factors (independent variable) to observe the effect on some behaviour or mental process (dependent variable) | 36 | |
| 7911598503 | myelin sheath | a layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibres of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next | 37 | |
| 7911622870 | natural selection | the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed to succeeding generations | 38 | |
| 7911635392 | nature vs. nurture | extent to which the origins of personality are in biology or the environment | 39 | |
| 7911643277 | CNS | abbreviation for central nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord | 40 | |
| 7911646214 | PNS | sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body peripheral nervous system - somatic nervous system (voluntary movements) - autonomic (controls self-regulated action of internal organs and glands) - sympathetic (arousing, stops digestion, releases adrenaline, fight or flight) - parasympathetic (calming, starts digestion - rest and digest) | 41 | |
| 7911673180 | operant conditioning | a type of learning in which behaviour is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher | 42 | |
| 7911685528 | perceptual set | a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another | 43 | |
| 7911696105 | permissive parenting | style of parenting in which parents offer warmth and caring but little control over their children | 44 | |
| 7911701410 | concrete opperational | 7-11 years - PIAGET - thinking logically about CONCRETE events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations - conservation - math magical transformations | 45 | |
| 7911734188 | formal operational | 12 through adulthood - PIAGET - abstract reasoning - abstract logic - potential for mature moral reasoning | 46 | |
| 7911740023 | sensorimotor | birth to 2 years - experiencing the world through SENSES and actions (looking, touching, grasping, mouthing) - object permanence - stranger anxiety | 47 | |
| 7911754394 | pre-operational | in which children reason intuitively, not logically 2-7 years - egocentrism | 48 | |
| 7911774245 | plasticity | the brains capacity for modification, as evident in brain reorganisation following damage (esp. in children) and in experiments on the effects of experience on brain development | 49 | |
| 7911794081 | priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response | 50 | |
| 7911806380 | proactive interference | the disruptive effect of OLD learning on the recall of NEW information | 51 | |
| 7911812101 | retroactive interference | the disruptive effect of NEW learning on the recall of OLD information | 52 | |
| 7911816978 | prosopagnosia | inability to recognize or perceive faces | 53 | |
| 7911825219 | psychokinesis | production of motion, especially in inanimate objects that are remote, by means of psychic power | 54 | |
| 7911833969 | recognition | a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test | 55 | |
| 7911843907 | REM | rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur | 56 | |
| 7911853258 | NREM | Non-rapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep` | 57 | |
| 7911861715 | retinal disparity | a binocular cue for perceiving depth: by comparing images from the two eyeballs, the brain computes distance - the greater the disparity between the two images, the closer the object | 58 | |
| 7911884766 | retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage | 59 | |
| 7911891346 | rods | retinal receptors that detect black, white, and grey; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don't respond | 60 | |
| 7911904588 | secure attachment | Play/explore when mother present upset when she leaves calmed when she returns | 61 | |
| 7911912244 | insecure attachment | infants are wary of exploring the environment and resist they cling to the mother or caregiver | 62 | |
| 7911926365 | selective attention | the focussing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect | 63 | |
| 7911936377 | sleep spindles | short bursts of brain waves detected in stage 2 sleep | 64 | |
| 7911943960 | spontaneous recovery | the reappearance after, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response | 65 | |
| 7911951794 | temperament | a person's characteristic emotion;l reactivity and intensity | 66 | |
| 7911960759 | thalamus | the brain's sensory switchboard, located on the top of the brainstem; it directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla | 67 | |
| 7911975047 | vestibular sense | the sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance | 68 |
