History of Psychology
Who suggested the brain was the 'seat of all mental processes
Plato
How many pounds does the brain weigh?
3 pounds
The vestibular sense helps to identify our......
Balance
A relatively permanent change in behaviour or knowledge occurs as a result of experience is called
Learning
Encoding of details that take time and practice is called
Effortful processing
The first psychology laboratory was first established in which country
Germany
This part of the brain primarily helps us with hearing
Temporal lobe
.................. refers to any perceptual processing that begins with the activation of sensory receptors.
Bottom-up processing
This type of associative learning facilitates the process of learning through reinforcement and punishment.
Operant Conditioning
Haptic memory primarily deals with......
Feel
Who was the first person to be called a psychologist?
Wilhelm Wundt
Nerve cells are also called
Neurons
The process that allows our brain/body to take in information through our senses to experience our world.
Sensation
When a pleasant consequence is removed following a response and causes the behaviour to decrease is called
Negative punishment
The cerebellum deals with what kind of memories primarily
Procedural/Implicit memories e.g playing piano
John B. Watson was the founder of what movement in psychology.
Behaviourism
What is an Axon?
The transmitting part of the neuron
Nociception helps us to idenify what in our body?
Pain
Learning that takes place by watching another individual model the learning task
Observation learning/social cognitive learning
The retrieval process of memories happens in three ways. What are they?
Recognition-Recall-Relearning
The structuralism movement in psychology primarily focused on what part of the mind
The basic elements of the mind
The human nervous system uses chemical messages called neurotransmitters while the endocrine system uses chemical messages called......
Hormones
This process always starts with a person's prior knowledge or forecast based on past experiences to recognize the stimuli
Top-Down processing
This type of associative learning involves forming an association between two stimuli, resulting in a learned response
Classical Conditioning
When somebody remembers unfinished tasks they have forgotten.This is called
Zeigarnik effect