Exam Flashcards
(49 cards)
What are the perspectives
Behaviorist , psychodynamic, humanism
What are the goals of psychology
Description, explanation, prediction, and control
What is a case study
Where an individual is studied in great detail
What is an experiment
Direct way to test a hypothesis about cause and effect
What is a correlation
Relationships between 2 or more variables
What is positive correlation
Increase in one variable, the other variable tends to decrease
What is a negative correlation
Decrease in one of the variables
What is the observer effect
When someone is watching they act different
what is top down processing
using pre existing knowledge
what is bottom up processing
using smaller pieces of knowledge to complete the perception.
who was Erst Weber
what was the smallest difference you could detect
what do rods and cones do?
turns light into neural signals that the brain can read
cones
responsible for light adaptation
rods
sensitive to brightness
only see black and white
what is the trichromatic theory?
we have 3 primary colors
red,green,blue
what is the opponent process theory
the theory saying we have 4 primary colors
red green blue and yellow
what is sensory adaptation
less responsive to unchanging stimuli unconscious
what is your kinesthetic sense
location of body parts in relation to each other
what is your vestibular sense
sense of balance
what are the 5 monocular cues
1. same size with convey depth if one is smaller than the other 2 overlap 3 ariel perspective 4 texture gradient 5 linear perspective
what is perception
when the brain takes all the sensations people feel and interprets them into something meaningful
what are binocular cues
requires the use of 2 eyes
what is absolute threshold
the lowest level of stimuli a person can detect
what are the theory’s of sleep
adaptive
evolution controls sleep pattern
restorative
you need sleep to function
