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Definition of Psychology
How does a neuron work with a message? What does what?
Steps in Action Potential??
Communication style of neurons?
What Am I?
-Surround axons, they insulate axons which help the message send quicker?
True/False?
Neurons touch each other when sending a message
How do signals between Neurons travel?
Stimulus cells that either excite or inhibit a neigboring neuron. Causing a behavior
The time that it takes for an action potential to travel depends on the ______of the _________ & how far it has to travel
______ stays constant in an action potential
________ can change when it is recieved
What happens to left over neurotransmitters?
What determines the strength of the message?
Peripheral Nervous System
In the Peripheral NS, what do the Blue Nerves Control?
What do the Red Nerves Control?
What system are the Blue Nerves related to?
What system are the Red Nerves related to?
Sympathetic muscles are....
Central Nervous controls the....
What side of brain controls the left side of the body?
What happens if the corpus Colosseum is severed?
Functions of The Frontal Lobe?
Functions of The Occipital Lobe?
What happens if you damage it?
Functions of the Temporal Lobe?
Functions of the Parietal Lobe?
Types of Psychologists?
Where do psychologists work?
Someone who reads and learns from the research conducted by others?
Someone who conducts research studies & collects studies?
1.Can you be a research producer without being a consumer?
2.Can you be a consumer without being a researcher?
Difference b/t psychologists & psychiatrists
The Types of studies for research?
Random assignment vs Sampling
WEIRD
What type of samples do most people use?
What does the IRB stand for?
What does it do?
describes exactly what the variables are and how they are measured within the context of your study
Common stats in psych research?
This Common stat tells you the average
This common stat tells you the middle value
This common stat tells you the most frequent value
Tells you how much the scores deviate from the mean
When you are not doing an experiment, you use_______________________ for analyse
What are the directions that (r) can go?
Best way to visualize correlational data?
What kind of data do you use when you aren't controlling variables
When you think that theres a relationship b/t two variables, but really there is no relationship or its very weak
Manipulated Variable is called?
Measured Variable is called?
The group that isn't manipulated in an experiment is called
The group that uses random assignment?
The group that uses the same people for each experiment
Stat bundle -what do they mean
r
M
SD
T-score
F-score
P-value
Function of the...
pupil?
Iris?
Sclera?
Function of the
Cornea
Lens
Retina
Vitreous Humor
Fovea
The whole is different from the sum of its parts
The Gestalt principles are?
Gestalt Principle:
We automatically perceive complete objects; not absent space
Gestalt Principle:
Simplicity
AKA?
Gestalt Principle:
Good Continuation
Gestalt Principle:
Similarity
Gestalt Principle: Promixity
Top-Down Processing?
Bottom-up processing?
Signal Detection Theory?
What are the 3 theories of vision?
Whats the theory?
Color vision depends on the response rate of the various types of cones
Whats the theory?
We perceive color in terms of paired opposites (red/green blue/yellow etc)
Whats the theory?
The cerebral cortex compares the patterns of light coming from the different parts of the retina & synthesizes a color perception of each area?
Visual Constancy?
Monocular Cues?
Our eyes have to turn(come closer) when we try to focus near objects
Retinal Disparity?
Induced Movement?
Stroboscopic Movement?
