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| physiological | having to do with an organism's physical processes |
| cognitive | having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding |
| psychology | the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research |
| hypothesis | an assumption about behavior that is tested through scientific research |
| theory | a set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study |
| basic science | the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake |
| applied science | discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals |
| scientific method | a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized |
| psychologist | a scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals |
| psychiatry | a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders |
| difference threshold | the smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected |
| Weber's Law | the principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference |
| sensation | occurs anytime a stimulus activates one of your receptors |
| absolute threshold | the weakest amount of a stimulus required to produce a sensation |
| perception | the organization of information received through our senses |
| optic nerve | the nerve that carries impulses from the retina to the brain |
| retina | the innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light sensitive receptor cells |
| pupil | the opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye |
| auditory nerve | the nerve that carries impulses from the inner ear to the brain, resulting in the senation of sound |
| lens | a flexible transparent structure in the eye that changes its shape to focus light on the retina |
| complementarity | an attraction between opposite types of people |
| self-serving bias | claiming personal responsibility for positive events and blaming circumstances beyond our control for negative events |
| stereotype | an exaggerated set of assumptions about an identifiable group of people |
| physical proximity | the distance from one another tha people live or work |
| social cognition | study of how people perceive, store, and retrieve information about social interactions |
