Psychology MIDTERMS

The studying of physical needs and processes

Thinking and understanding

describe the four goals of psychology

An educated guess

A complex explanation

Research

Using psychological principles to solve problems

List the steps of the scientific method

Difference between a psychologist and psychiatrist

A small group out of a large population;Anyone who represents a test or an experiment

Impossible to study everyone so people turn to

A total group

Something that doesn't represent all_something___in general

Something that represents all_something__in general

Dry numbers out of a hat or picking something out of order

Picking something in proportion or subgroups

Naturalistic observation

Case study

Longitudinal study

Survey

Cross-sectional study

Experimental study

When the experimenter influences the subject by making a small move when I ask you a question like raising his eyebrows

One person knows about the experiment

None know about the experiment

Something that works because you told them it does

Study of changes that occur as individual matures

Clinging response to a touch on the palm of the hand

Response to turning toward source of touching anywhere on the mouth

Internally programed growth of a child

Verbal utterance in which words are left out but meaning is clear

What did Jean Piaget believe

The process of learning excepted rules and behavior from our own culture and society

The period of puberty during which a person develops from a child to an adult

Rites that mark the transition into adulthood

Sexual maturation;end of childhood

1st menstrual cycle

1st ejaculation

Small exclusive group of people within a leather group

Acting in accordance with specified authority

Emphasizes role of social and cognitive processes on how we perceive and use info

Proposes that children acquire gender roles by interacting with environment and experiences

Contains the brain and the spinal cord

Nerve that runs up and down the back and transmit messages to the body and back to brain

Nerves branching out the spinal cord

Different methods psychologist use to study the bran

Machine used to record electrical activity of large portions of the brain

Imaging technique used to study the brain pinpoint injuries and brain deterioration

Imaging technique used to see which brain areas are active

Imaging technique used to study the brain structure and activity

Chemicals released by neurons

Cells of nerve tissue along which messages travel to the brain and back

The part of the PNS that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles

The part of the PNS that controls internal biological functions

All or none principle

Contains nucleus and produces energy needed to fill neuron activity

Controls the functional unit of the entire cell

Receives signals from other nerve cells

Carries signals from the cell body to the neurons

Psychologists use the___ to study the role of the both nature and nurture play in development

The medulla pons and midbrain make up the majority of the_____

Dopamine and serotonin are examples of

Controls actions such as moving your finger and walking

Controls actions such as heart rate and breathing

Frontal lobe

Parietal lobe

Occipital lobe

Temporal lobe

The basic building blocks of heredity

regulates sugar metabolism

Produce eggs and the female hormones

When a stimulus activates a receptor

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences

The study of the relationship between sensory experiences and physical stimuli that cause them

Minimum intensity of the stimulus one can detect

Minimum difference in intensity between 2 stimulus

Type of increased needed for someone to notice a difference

Study of people's tendency is to make her a judgments and detecting the presence of a stimuli

Regulates amount of light coming in that eyes

Transparent structure that focuses light on the retina

Contains cones and rods for clear vision

Carries impulses from the retina to the brain

Combining images

Difference between images stimulating each eye

3-D perception and double vision

Colorblindness

To where sound is directed

Separates the external ear and the middle ear and transmit sound where vibration occurs

___changes vibration to neuronal signals the travel to the brain

Tiny bones linked to the eardrum

The sense organ that translates sound into nerve impulses to be sent to the brain

Carries impulses to the brain(sound)

Two types of deafness

Sense that provides balance

Where is the vestibular system located

Nerves that carry small impulses to the nose and the brain

Gives tongue is rough texture and contains taste buds the cover the surface

Layers of the skin

Receptors provide information about environment:

The sense of movement and body position;work to maintain balance