1: Biological Bases of Behavior
This nervous system includes the sensory nerves and tissues that relay information to the CNS.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The concept that even in a noisy room, we can still hear our name mentioned
What is the cocktail party effect?
These type of movements are small muscle movements like grasping and manipulating objects.
What is fine motor coordination?
This attribution bias has the tendency to attribute our own actions to situational factors, but others’ actions to dispositional factors
Example: Justifying our own mistakes by circumstances but blaming others’ mistakes on their character
What is actor-observer bias?
This type of stress is positive, motivating stress?
What is eustress?
This concept is often referred to as "nature," is the passing down of genetic information from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
This type of memory are of personal experiences and events.
What are episodic memories?
What are phonemes?
This phenomena occurs when people are exposed to a stimulus repeatedly over time, leading to increased liking
Example: Liking a song more after hearing it several times
What is the mere-exposure effect?
This disorder involves a range of symptoms affecting perception and behavior. They include issues in delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking/speech, disorganized motor behavior, and negative symptoms
The disorders can be short-term (acute) or long-lasting (chronic)
What is scizophrenia?
This theory proposes that some receptors eliminate opposing colors that share the same pathway (red-green, yellow-blue, black-white) in the retina
What is the opponent process theory?
This problem solving technique is a step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution by trying all possible options
Example: Solving a math problem by systematically
testing every possible answer until you find the correct one
What is an algorithm?
This type of parenting style has few rules, low expectations, and high warmth
What is permissive?
These attitudes are ones that individuals hold but may be unaware of or may not acknowledge
What is implicit attitude?
This therapy category focuses on personal growth and self-actualization
What are humanistic therapies?
This lobe in the cerebral cortex is situated at the top and back of the brain, they process sensory information related to touch, temperature, and pain, and help with spatial orientation and body awareness
What is the parietal lobe?
What is the memory impairment that causes the loss of pre-existing memories?
What is retrograde amnesia?
This example of learning includes mental representations of the environment
Example: A person being able to navigate a city they’ve walked through before without needing directions
What are cognitive maps?
This persuasion technique starts with a large request, followed by a smaller one
Example: Asking for a large favor that is likely to be refused, then a smaller, more reasonable request
This disorder has a fear of specific social situations
Example: Fear of crowded places or being outside alone
What is agoraphobia?
2. This part of the neuron is responsible for sending electrical charges to communicate with another neuron
1. What are dendrites?
2. What is the axon terminal?
This concept explains when old information hinders the recall of new information
Example: Difficulty remembering a new phone
number because an old one keeps coming to mind
What is proactive interference?
This development stage by Piaget includes logical thinking and overcoming cognitive errors but they still struggle with abstract and hypothetical thinking?
What is concrete operational stage?
These are the five big characteristic traits of the "Five Big Theory of Personality"
What is agreeableness, openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, emotional stability?
What is applied behavior analysis?