25 questions
What is the introspection method of research?
Watching other people's behavior
Self-observation
Experiments
Surveying
What is the observation method?
Self reporting
Observing behavior
Experimenting on rats
Taking a survey
Is a researcher allowed to harm a participant in an experiment?
Yes, for science purposes.
No, that is unethical.
Maybe?????
The basic unit of the nervous system is the____________________.
neuron
synapse
myelin
axon
The ______________________nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord.
autonomic
central
peripheral
somatic
The space between two neurons is called the _______________.
neurotransmitter
myelin
nucleus
synapse
In a neuron, the _____ conducts information to other neurons, and the _____ receives information from other neurons?
axon/dendrite
dendrite/axon
axon/soma
soma/axon
How many stages of sleep are there?
2
5
4
8
The average sleep cycle is about ______ minutes
100
90
60
30
Loss of sleep.
Sleep Deprivation
Microsleep
Narcolepsy
Non-REM Sleep
Spans from lighter stages to a much deeper, more restful kind of sleep; the person’s body is free to move around in this stage.
Non-REM Sleep
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep
In what sleep stage would nightmares occur?
NREM-1
NREM-2
NREM-3
REM
Besides energy levels, what else does sleep impact?
Health
Mood
Memory
All of these options
True or false? Teenagers are recommended to sleep 7-9 hours per night.
True
False
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment is called
Hypnosis
Circadian Rhythm
Consciousness
Dreaming
What is sensation?
refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.
refers to how the mind loses information
refers to how we store information
Which defines perception?
how we perceive different things
how we interpret the information from the external world
how we sense things from the external world
Absolute threshold refers to
The maximum stimulation required to say anything
minimum usage of sense organs
The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus
Which of the following are chemical senses?
touch
smell
taste
vision
hearing