Psych Exam 1

the study of behavior and mental processes

Wilhelm Wundt

Inez Beverly Prosser

The field that applies psychological principles to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders.

The field that applies psychological principles to help individuals deal with problems of daily living, generally less serious ones than those treated by clinical psychologists.

The field of medicine that diagnoses and treats psychological disorders by using medical or psychological forms of therapy.

The psychological viewpoint, descended from behaviorism, that stresses the importance of studying the effects of learning and environmental factors on overt behavior.

The psychological viewpoint that is descended from psychoanalysis but places less emphasis on biological motives and more emphasis on the importance of interpersonal relationships.

The psychological viewpoint that holds that the proper subject matter of psychology is the individual's subjective mental experience of the world.

The psychological viewpoint that favors the study of how the mind organizes perceptions, processes information, and interprets experiences.

An in-depth look at a single individual

The recording of the behavior of people or animals in their natural environments, with little or no intervention by the researcher.

The degree of relationship between two or more variables.

An effect of one or more variables on another variable.

A variable manipulated by the experimenter to determine its effect on another, dependent, variable.

A variable showing the effect of the independent variable.

The participants in an experiment who are exposed to the experimental condition of interest.

The participants in an experiment who are not exposed to the experimental condition of interest.

An inactive substance that might induce some of the effects of the drug for which it has been substituted.

Agreement participant gives to researcher to participate in the research project after having been given some basic information about the research process.

The part of the neuron that conducts neural impulses to glands, muscles, or other neurons.

The branchlike structures of the neuron that receive neural impulses.

Is a neurotransmitter originiating in lower part of the brain/ excitatory or inhibitory effect/ depending on the synapse is affecting. Affects sleep, mood, anxiety and appetite

Chemicals secreted by neurons that provide the means of synaptic transmission.

An endocrine gland that regulates many of the other endocrine glands by secreting hormones that affect the secretion of their hormones.

Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.

A brain-scanning technique that relies on X rays to construct computer-generated images of the brain or body.

A device used to record patterns of electrical activity produced by neuronal activity in the brain.

A brain-scanning technique that relies on strong magnetic fields to construct computer-generated images of the brain or body.

A brain-scanning technique that produces color-coded pictures showing the relative activity of different brain areas.

A brain stem structure that acts as a sensory relay station for taste, body, visual, and auditory sensations.

A limbic system structure that contributes to the formation of memories.

A lobe of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing vision.

A white fatty substance that forms sheaths around certain axons and increases the speed of neural impulses.

A brain stem structure that regulates the sleep-wake cycle.

A limbic system structure that evaluates information from the immediate environment, contributing to feelings of fear, anger, or relief.

brain's special physical capacity for change

The process that detects stimuli from the body or surroundings.

The process that organizes sensations into meaningful patterns.

Receptor cells of the retina that play an important role in night vision and peripheral vision.

Receptor cells of the retina that play an important role in daylight vision and color vision.

day, night

The theory that color vision depends on red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white opponent processes in the brain.

when items share some visual characteristic, they are assumed to be related in some way

the ability to turn the two eyes inward toward each other to look at a close object

A membrane running the length of the cochlea that contains the auditory receptor (hair) cells.

The movement of the fluids causes the tiny hair cells(mechanical) of the inner ear, which sets off an electrical signal that is transferred to the brain for interpretation.

cochlear amplifier that refines the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the mechanical vibrations of the cochlea.

The area of the parietal lobes that processes information from sensory receptors in the skin.

protein

sodium

sugar

acidic?

The stages of sleep not associated with rapid eye movements and marked by relatively little dreaming.

The stage of sleep associated with rapid eye movements, an active brain-wave pattern, and vivid dreams.

dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled

Chronic difficulty in either falling asleep or staying asleep.

A condition in which an awake person suffers from repeated, sudden, and irresistible REM sleep attacks.

discomfort and distress that follow discontinued use

Psychoactive drugs that increase central nervous system activity.

Psychoactive drugs that induce extreme alterations in consciousness, including visual hallucinations, a sense of timelessness, and feelings of depersonalization.