Learning Theory
Julie went for her immunizations and cried hard. Now whenever she enters the waiting room of her pediatrician she cries in fear of pain. The office has become a __________ in classical conditioning terms.
What is conditioned stimulus
This part of the brain is located in the limbic system and it's primary function involves memory.
hippocampus
A method used to prove cause and effect
What is experiment
A formula for acheiving a goal or solving a problem is referred to as an _________.
algorithm
The axon is the part of neuron whose primary job is to _______ signals to other neurons.
send
When Skinner trained the pigeon to peck at the red disk when the light was on in the Skinner Box he was using the light as a _______.
discriminative stimulus
Dr. Smith is treating an individual for depression and uses a talk therapy approach that challenges his client's irrational assumptions because they fuel his depression. Dr. Smith is working from the ______ perspective.
cognitive
A method of research that is a measure of relationships between variables is called _______.
correlational
When we attempt to solve a problem the way we always have in cognitive psychology circles this is called a _____ _____.
mental set
The brain and spinal cord make up the _________ nervous system.
central
Any consequence that results in an increase in the behavior it follows is referred to as
What is reinforcement
This part of the brain is involved in emotional regulation and is called the ________.
amygdala
A method of gaining knowledge by evaluating evidence from experiments and/or careful observation and collection of data is referred to as the __________ approach.
empirical
This concepts refers to the rules governing the meaning of morphemes and words.
Semantics
Chemical messengers that that transport information and nerve impulses from one neuron to another are called __________.
neurotransmitters
learning through imitation is referred to as ___________ learning.
What is observational
A mental category used to group objects or ideas to shared features is called a ________.
concept
In a study of sleep deprivation on learning one group of students were deprived of rem sleep and the other group was not. The following day they were all tested on a task they learned the previous day. The amount of sleep they were allowed is___________.
the independent variable
This concept relates to the phenomenon of failing to see new uses for familiar objects.
Functional Fixedness
The brain's ability to develop new neural networks and repair injured one's is called ________.
plasticity
When previously reinforced behaviors stop receiving reinforcement ________ happens.
What is extinction
Dave comments of what a cold summer it has been after a week of below average temperatures even though prior to this temperatures have been above or average for this time of year. Dave's comments represent a cognitive tendency called the _______ heuristic.
availability
When researchers attempt to duplicate research findings that another scientist reported this is called ________.
replication
John and Jerry are lost in the woods and a bear is coming towards them quickly. John who is very smart calculates how quickly the bear will arrive and Jerry is putting on his running shoes. John says Jerry what are you doing we can't outrun this bear. Jerry says I don't have to I just have to outrun you. Jerry is demonstating what Robert Sternberg would characterize as _________ intelligence.
practical
The division of functions between the right and left hemispheres is called __________.
lateralization