Psychological Effect
A common psychological effect of alcohol intake is:
What is reduced inhibition?
The pituitary gland is controlled by the:
What is the hypothalamus?
The brain's ability to adapt after it is damaged is known as:
What is plasticity?
What is a type of stress management that attempts to reduce negative emotional responses associated with stress.
What is emotion based coping?
Steve's cat used to run away from loud music. Over time the cat stopped running from the sound. Which process has occurred?
What is habituation?
After spending hours in her kitchen preparing dinner, Rebecca no longer notices the strong smell of garlic until her guests arrive and mention the smell. Her failure to notice the smell of garlic illustrates:
What is sensory adaptation?
The division of the nervous system that most directly allows voluntary muscle movement is the:
What is the somatic system?
The part of the neuron that is responsible for receiving signals from other neurons is called:
What is a dendrite?
Suzie screamed at her little brother, and her mother yelled "We do no yell in this house!" Suzie continues to yell at her brother despite her mother reprimanding her. Suzie's behavior is best explained by:
What is observational learning?
A child receives a candy bar each time they are polite to a stranger. This is an example of:
What is positive reinforcement
The notion that human behavior is greatly influenced by unconscious thoughts and desires is most consistent with which psychological approach?
What is the psychodynamic approach?
Damage to Wernicke's area is most likely to be associated with difficulty in:
What is understanding language?
Stimulation of which of the following brain areas will lead a person to eat?
What is the lateral hypothalamus?
A state that occurs after a person has a stressful situation repeatedly, they have come to learn that are unable to control or change the situation.
What is learned helplessness
In Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning paradigm, the dog salivated in response to the food at the outset of the experiment because the food was:
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Lucid Dreaming occurs when people
What is "Have dreams in which they are aware that they are dreaming?"
What is the central nervous system composed of?
What is the Brain and spinal chord?
Which of the following refers to the transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses?
What is Transduction
What is the awareness that objects continue to exist even when they are not directly percieved
What is object permanence?
In classical conditioning, repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus lead to:
What is extinction?
What does having a kinesthetic sense mean?
What is "being able to tell exact bodily position and movement without looking at the body"
Nervousness can result in faster and more shallow breathing as well as a racing heart. This is due to activation of:
During neuronal firing, the part of the neuran that acts as an insulator and conductor to speed the electrical impulse as it travels down the axon is
What is the myelin sheath
The theorist who conducted pioneering research on latent learning and cognitive maps was
Who is Edward Tolman
A four year old child frequently pulled on the dogs tail to gain attention. To reduce this undesirable behavior, the parent took away one hour of television viewing every time the child pulled the dog's tail Within one week, the undesirable behavior was significantly reduced. The above scenario illustrates:
What is negative reinforcement?