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| Psychology | The study of human and animal behaviors (must be scientific, behavior must be seen, measured and perhaps altered). |
| Theory | An ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles or circumstances |
| Reflex | A way of thinking or behaving. |
| Subliminal | Inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| Field Experiments | Research that takes place outside the lab. |
| Dominance | Either the right or left hemisphere of the brain is dominant in everyone: hence one is preferred and controls the majority of actions performed. |
| Hemisphere | One half of the two halves of the brain: controls the opposite side of the body. |
| Perception | Awareness of the elements of the environment through physical sensation. |
| Introspection | A reflective looking inwards: an examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings. |
| Eclecticism | A process of making your own perspective (of Psychology) by borrowing from two or more other systems/perspectives. |
| Axon | The part of the neuron that carries messages away from the nerve cell to the dendrites on another nerve cell. |
| Dendrite | The part of the nerve cell that receives information from the axon of other nerve cells. |
| Reticular Activating System | The alertness control center of the brain that regulates the activity level of the body. |
| Visual Texture | Depth perception based on how rough or smooth objects appear. |
| Lower Brain | Basic “animal” units common to animals and humans that regulate basic functions such as breathing |
| Neuron | A nerve cell, which transmits electrical and chemical information |
| Synapse | The junction point of two or more neurons; a connection is made by neurotransmitters). |
