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100
The lobe that houses the primary visual cortex
What is the occipital lobe?
100
The five primary tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and ______________
What is umami?
100
Developed behaviorism; argued psychology should only study observable behavior; conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
Who is John B. Watson?
100
Pioneered research on operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
100
The assumed capacity of short-term memory
What is 7 +/- 2 ?
200
Brain structure that helps you keep your balance on the tightrope
What is the cerebellum?
200
Part of the eye that is entirely made up of cones
What is the fovea?
200
Studied observational learning in his Bobo doll experiment
Who is Albert Bandura?
200
Type of learning: My mouth waters when I see the Chipotle sign
What is classical conditioning?
200
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
300
The part of the neuron labeled H
What are the terminal buttons?
(axon terminals)
300
The only one of our five senses that is not routed through the thalamus
What is smell (olfaction)?
300
Dubbed the "Father of Psychology" after opening the first psychology research lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
A tendency to avoid or make negative associations with a food that you ate just before getting sick
What is taste aversion?
300
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded.
What is context-dependent memory?
400
The branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
What is inattentional blindness?
400
Established the perspective of functionalism; published first psychology textbook; co-proposed the earliest theory of emotion
Who is William James?
400
Removing something unpleasant to encourage behavior (EX: replacing the batteries in the smoke detector to eliminate the obnoxiously loud beeping)
What is negative reinforcement?
400
Occurs when old information interferes with the retention of new information
What is proactive interference?
500
The area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
500
The theory of color vision that explains why we see a red afterimage after staring at a green screen
What is opponent-process theory?
500
Psychologist known for their research on the misinformation effect
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
500
Explains why after being conditioned to fear a white rat, Little Albert was also fearful of other white, furry objects
What is stimulus generalization?
500
The process of retrieving information necessary to perform learned skills. These skills may be movement based, such as tying a shoe or riding a bicycle.
What is procedural memory?
600
The "master gland" of the endocrine system
What is the pituitary gland?
600
This type of processing allows us to make sense of the following:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
What is top-down processing?
600
The psychologist that suggested that negative beliefs cause depression. He developed the cognitive triad.
Who is Aaron Beck?
600
The schedule of reinforcement that is the most resistant to extinction
What is a variable-interval (VI) schedule?
600
Jason Bourne's condition in The Bourne Identity
(has no memory of who he is, where he lives, what he does, etc. but can form new memories)
What is retrograde amnesia?
700
The neurotransmitter exclusively responsible for controlling skeletal muscles; low levels of it are linked to Alzheimer's disease
What is acetycholine (ACh)?
700
The three tiniest bones in the human body (collectively known as the ossicles) that transmit vibrations of the eardrum
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
(or malleus, incus, & stapes)
700
The famous student of William James who was denied her degree from Harvard. She became first female president of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
700
When a neutral stimulus becomes linked to a conditioned stimulus
What is higher-order conditioning (or second-order conditioning?
700
Remembering to take the trash out tomorrow night is an example of this type of memory
What is prospective memory?