Biological Bases of Behavior
This lobe is located at the back of the head and involves vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Auditory stimuli go to this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
We remember memories through this process.
What is retrieval?
Increasing a behavior by adding something desirable.
What is positive reinforcement?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This part of the neuron is where neurotransmitters are transmitted from.
What are axons?
What is transduction?
This is where memories you are currently encoding are stored.
What is working memory?
Decreasing a behavior by adding something undesirable.
This cognitive psychologist studied operant conditioning using a box with levels that provided a food reward.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
What is Wernicke's area?
This is the only sensation that does not go through the thalamus.
What is olfaction?
According to Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, most information is forgotten at this point.
What is early?
Increasing a behavior by taking away something undesirable.
What is negative reinforcement?
He created General Adaptation Syndrome.
Who is Hans Selye?
Shortage of this neurotransmitter is linked to Alzheimer's.
What is acetylcholine?
This Gestalt principle occurs when a group of items are aligned and appear to be together.
What is continuity?
This is a process where new knowledge makes it harder to remember old knowledge.
What is retroactive interference?
Decreasing a behavior by removing something desirable.
What is negative punishment?
This woman was known for her work to improve humane conditions for people with mental illnesses.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Sensory neurons are also known as this.
What are afferent neurons?
This part of the ear also affects balance.
What are the semicircular canals?
This is a condition where we attribute a memory to the wrong origin.
What is source amnesia?
In Ivan Pavlov's experiment, this was the name given to salivation in response to the bell.
What is a conditioned response?
This psychologist is known as the Father of Positive Psychology.
Who is Martin Seligman?