2. There’s a Method
In This Madness

3. It’s All About
Your Perspective

4. My, What a Big
Brain You Have

5. Communication Makes
Me Nervous

6. That Makes
Sense

7. But It Depends
On Your Perception

8. There’s a Method
In This Madness
It’s All About
Your Perspective
My, What a Big
Brain You Have
Communication Makes
Me Nervous
That Makes
Sense
But It Depends
On Your Perception
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9. The variable that is
manipulated by the
experimenter

10. What is the
independent variable?

11. The difference
between a theory
and a hypothesis

12. What is that a hypothesis is a “little theory” that
can be accepted or rejected?

13. within one standard deviation on either side of the mean
The percentage of the
population that falls
within one standard deviation
on either side of the mean

14. What is
sixty-eight percent?

15. accept as statistically
The common value
that psychologists
accept as statistically
significant

16. What is
p < 0.05?

17. A specific type of study pre-existing condition,
in which participants
are chosen based on a
pre-existing condition,
like gender

18. What is
ex post facto?

19. unconscious conflicts
Sigmund Freud’s
view that mental
disorders arise from
unconscious conflicts

20. What is
psychoanalysis?

21. experimental psychology to solve human problems
The general term for
psychologists who use
experimental psychology
to solve human problems

22. What are applied
psychologists?

23. The 17th century
figure who first
said that sensations
and behaviors were
based on nervous
system activity

24. Who is
Descartes?

25. Ask famous psychologists, like Kohler and Wertheimer, in this
historical school about psychology,
and they’ll say that it’s
very “whole-y”, but not holy

26. What is gestalt
psychology?

27. In modern terms,
functionalism would
be most seen in this
perspective

28. What is evolutionary
psychology?

29. The parts of the
brain stem

30. What are the medulla,
the RAS, the pons,
and the thalamus?

31. is this type of brain scan, which not only tracks
PET version 2.0
is this type of brain scan,
which not only tracks
brain activity, but also
can pinpoint brain structures

32. What is
f MRI?

33. At least four out of the
possible five F’s
associated with
the hypothalamus

34. What are flight, fight,
food, Fahrenheit, and
fornicate?

35. If a split-brain patient is able to use his left hand
to match a hidden object
but cannot name it,
then the object must have
been projected to this
visual field

36. What is the left
visual field?

37. could still speak, but could not understand speech, showing
Edna had a stroke and
could still speak, but could not
understand speech, showing
damage to this part of the brain

38. What is
Wernicke’s Area?

39. The two main divisions
of the peripheral
nervous system

40. What are the somatic
and autonomic
nervous systems?

41. This system dilates pupils, and decreases digestion
inhibits salivation,
and decreases digestion

42. What is the sympathetic
nervous system?

43. This endocrine
gland controls
metabolism and
physical growth

44. What is the
thyroid?

45. Next time you think about getting Botox at your tender age,
remember that curare and
Botulism toxin are antagonists
to this neurotransmitter

46. What is
acetylcholine?

47. Due to this ability of
the nervous system,
people who experience
traumas may have
physical changes in
their amygdala

48. What is
plasticity?

49. converts physical energy
The term for the
sensory process that
converts physical energy
into neural messages

50. What is
transduction?

51. The two types of photoreceptors that are responsible for the
conversion of light energy

52. What are
rods and cones?

53. the size of the just noticeable difference is proportional
Weber’s law says that
the size of the just noticeable
difference is proportional
to this

54. What is the intensity
of the stimulus?

55. explains color sensation from the bipolar cells onward
The theory that
explains color sensation
from the bipolar cells onward
in the visual system

56. opponent-process theory?
What is the
opponent-process theory?

57. This part of the inner ear is programmed to send neural
Have you heard?
This part of the inner ear
is programmed to send neural
codes for different pitches according
to both location (place) and
rate (frequency)

58. What is the
basilar membrane?

59. The Necker cube
and “My Wife or
Mother-in-Law” are
popular types of these

60. What are
illusions?

61. errors on your last English paper
Blame this gestalt
law for the undetected
errors on your last English paper

62. What is the law of
Pragnanz?

63. Because your finger will “dance” if you close one eye
after another, we know that
retinal disparity is a type of this

64. What is a
binocular cue?

65. This gestalt principle explains why objects do not
fully disappear when they exist
in your blind spot

66. What is closure?

67. The Zulu tribes’ inability to be tricked by the Muller-Lyer
illusion proved the importance of
this type of processing

68. What is top-down
processing?