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GABA - ️️chemical involved in inhibiting neural activity. inhibitory transmitter (slows you down). too little --> anxiety Dark adaptation - ️️the process by which our eyes adjust to darkness after being exposed to light Absolute threshold - ️️the intensity amount which is needed ...

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Psychology 101 Quiz 1
GABA - ✔️✔️chemical involved in inhibiting neural activity. inhibitory transmitter (slows
you down). too little --> anxiety

Dark adaptation - ✔️✔️the process by which our eyes adjust to darkness after being
exposed to light

Absolute threshold - ✔️✔️the intensity amount which is needed to detect the difference
between nothing and something (it is the lowest level at which an individual can
experience a sensation)

Acetylcholine - ✔️✔️chemical involved in memory. too little --> Alzheimer's

All or none principle - ✔️✔️the neuron either fires at full strength or not at all

Amygdala - ✔️✔️(limbic system) involved in fear responses and memory of fear

Autonomic nervous system - ✔️✔️(PNS)controls organs, glands, and involuntary
muscles

Axon - ✔️✔️transmits signal away from cell

Behaviorism - ✔️✔️John Watson-the study of behavior

Binocular cues - ✔️✔️using cues from both eyes to determine depth perception

Binocular disparity - ✔️✔️difference in images between two eyes

Biological perspective - ✔️✔️human and animal behavior is seen as a direct result of
events in the body

Blind spot - ✔️✔️where the optic nerve leaves the eye (no photoreceptor cells)

Broca's aphasia - ✔️✔️trouble producing language

Case study - ✔️✔️an in-depth report about the details of a specific case (single
participant)

Cerebellum - ✔️✔️(hindbrain) controls all involuntary, rapid, fine motor movement

Closure - ✔️✔️(Gestalt laws of grouping) completing figures

, Color blindness - ✔️✔️cause is the amount of pigment per cone is reduced or absent

Cones - ✔️✔️color vision and sharpness of vision

Continuity - ✔️✔️(Gestalt laws of grouping) we assume there is a continuous line

Control group - ✔️✔️similar subjects who don't receive special treatment

Cornea - ✔️✔️outer covering of the eye

Correlation - ✔️✔️prediction- takes a direction and has a magnitude (1 to -1)

Correlational coefficient - ✔️✔️numerical index of degree of relationship

Dendrite - ✔️✔️receives signals

Dependent variable - ✔️✔️variable affected by manipulation

Dopamine - ✔️✔️chemical involved in cognitive and motor control. too much -->
schizophrenia, too little --> Parkinson's disease

Double blind study - ✔️✔️neither the participants or experimenter knows the exact
treatment

Endorphins - ✔️✔️chemical involved in emotional behaviors (anxiety, fear)

Evolutionary perspective - ✔️✔️focuses on the biological bases for universal mental
characteristics that all humans share (seeks to explain general mental strategies and
traits)

Experiment - ✔️✔️manipulation of one variable under controlled conditions so that
resulting changes in another variable can be observed

Experimental group - ✔️✔️subjects who receive some special treatment in regard to
the independent variable

Experimenter bias - ✔️✔️where the scientists performing the research influence the
results, in order to portray a certain outcome.

Forea - ✔️✔️greatest concentration of photoreceptors

Forebrain - ✔️✔️emotion, complex thought

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