psych soc Flashcards
what do steroid hormones end in
“-ol,” “-one,” or “-en.”
hawthorne effect
research subjects act differently because they know they are being observed
otolith organ
for the vestibular system
stereopsis
depth perception collected from info received from both eyes
- retinal disparity: different images on each retina
- convergence: angular position of eyes
monoamine hypothesis
depletion of neurotransmitters cause depression
what is damaged in parkingsons
- dopamine neurons
- basal ganglia
feature detection
specific neurons that preferentially fire in response to specific stimuli
parallel processing
simultaneously processes many things
spreading activation
one node triggers the activity of other ones
sensory adaptation
diminishing nervous system response to stimuli that remains constant