Here are the terms you’ll need to know for the first test. There are a lot more terms you will encounter but these are the more essential ones.
They are in alphabetical order. When you are studying, arrange them in clusters so they are easier to remember.
- accommodation
- afferant neurons
- efferent neurons
- afterimages
- algor mortis
- alpha waves
- altered state of consciousness
- animal research
- aqueous humor
- assimilation
- astrocytes
- attention
- axons
- backfire effect
- Barnum Effect
- beta waves
- bottom-up processing
- brain
- causation
- center yourself
- central tendency
- centration
- cerebellum
- chromosomes
- CNS
- color constancy
- cones
- confounding variable
- conservation
- continuity
- cornea
- corpus callosum
- correlation
- cross-sectional study
- deep sleep
- delayed gratification
- delta waves
- dendrites
- dependent variable
- experimental physiology
- experiment
- figure
- frontal lobes
- Gestalt
- glial cells
- ground
- Harlow
- histogram
- hot flashes
- hypnosis
- independent variable
- induction
- intermittent fasting
- intervening variable
- introspection
- irregular menstrual periods
- K complexes
- left hemisphere
- liquefaction
- lividity
- livor mortis
- longitudinal study
- magic
- magical thinking
- Margaret Washburn
- Marshmallow Study
- mean
- median
- meditation
- menopause
- Mischel
- mode
- monocular cues
- motor neurons
- naturalistic observation
- normal distribution
- occipital lobes
- odds
- operational definition
- opponent-process theory of color
- pallor mortis
- parietal lobes
- phi phenomenon
- philosophy
- Piaget
- PNS
- population
- pragnanz
- probability
- puppy smiles
- random assignment
- red-green color blindness
- relationship
- REM waves
- reticular formation
- right hemisphere
- rigor mortis
- rods
- sample
- scatterplot
- self-talk
- sensory neurons
- skeletonization
- skewed distribution
- sleep spindles
- sleep stage N2
- Stroop effect
- subjective validation
- suggestion
- surveys
- synapses
- Tangen’s 12 steps to mindfulness
- target detection
- target identification
- temporal lobes
- tender breasts
- theta waves
- top-down processing
- trichromatic theory of color
- Type I error
- Type II error
- upright faces
- vivid sensory scene
Go through the list and identify the one you don’t know. We have a great mental capacity called negative recognition. It is easier for us to identify things we don’t know than things we sort-of and actually know. You don’t have to search your memory to find a word like Schmotdz. You immediately know you don’t know it. Use that phenomenon to your advantage. Go through the list and identify the Don’t Knows.
Look up the Don’t Knows in your notes and learn them. Then you’ll have moved everything into only two categories: Know and Sort-of-Know.
Once you have adequately learned all of the terms, go back and arrange them into easier to remember groups. Facts are easier to remember when bundled together. Make your own clusters.
No get you started, here is a more clustered list:
efferent neurons
afterimages
algor mortis
alpha waves
altered state of consciousness
animal research
aqueous humor
assimilation
astrocytes
attention
axons
backfire effect
Barnum Effect
beta waves
bottom-up processing
brain
causation
center yourself
central tendency
centration
cerebellum
chromosomes
CNS
color constancy
cones
confounding variable
conservation
continuity
cornea
corpus callosum
correlation
cross-sectional study
deep sleep
delayed gratification
delta waves
dendrites
dependent variable
experimental physiology
experiment
figure
frontal lobes
Gestalt
glial cells
ground
Harlow
histogram
hot flashes
hypnosis
independent variable
induction
intermittent fasting
intervening variable
introspection
irregular menstrual periods
K complexes
left hemisphere
liquefaction
lividity
livor mortis
longitudinal study
magic
magical thinking
Margaret Washburn
Marshmallow Study
mean
median
meditation
menopause
Mischel
mode
monocular cues
motor neurons
naturalistic observation
normal distribution
occipital lobes
odds
operational definition
opponent-process theory of color
pallor mortis
parietal lobes
phi phenomenon
philosophy
Piaget
PNS
population
pragnanz
probability
puppy smiles
random assignment
red-green color blindness
relationship
REM waves
reticular formation
right hemisphere
rigor mortis
rods
sample
scatterplot
self-talk
sensory neurons
skeletonization
skewed distribution
sleep spindles
sleep stage N2
Stroop effect
subjective validation
suggestion
surveys
synapses
Tangen’s 12 steps to mindfulness
target detection
target identification
temporal lobes
tender breasts
theta waves
top-down processing
trichromatic theory of color
Type I error
Type II error
upright faces
vivid sensory scene
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