Neuroscience Testing
What method of studying the brain uses a cap of electrodes?
EEG
What does the Gate-Control theory of pain state?
Only one tactile sensation can get through at a time (it closes the "gate") so rubbing overrides pain or pressure overrides pain.
Name a universal emotion other than happiness and sadness.
Disgust, fear, anger, surprise, contempt
Pavlov's dogs are an example of what kind of learning?
Classical conditioning
Forgetting info when you are of the context/situation where you learned it in the first place.
Used to measure soft tissue structures in the brain.
MRI
What is between the pinna and ear drum?
Ear canal
What part of the brain regulates hunger and thirst?
Hypothalamus
Teachers that use stickers as rewards are using what kind of learning?
Operant conditioning
Describe procedural memory.
Muscle memory
Used to measure which areas of the brain are functioning at certain times.
fMRI
What does the vesibulocochlear nerve connect to (two things)?
Semi-circular canals and cochlea
What term refers to norms of when it is culturally acceptable or necessary to show emotions?
Display rules
When you were sick with the flu you had just eaten popcorn. Now you cannot stand the smell of popcorn or even look at it without feeling sick. In this example, what is the original flu (nausea, vomiting, fever, etc.). (US, UR, CS, CR)?
Unconditioned stimulus
Describe maintenance rehearsal.
Repeating info to keep it in short term memory
After a near death experience, the man that invented _________ was trying to measure brain activity and link it to ESP (psychic energy). A connection has not been found but his tool is widely used in brain science and he was nominated for multiple Noble Prizes.
EEG
What is the fovea?
Where vision is best/focused
Name the two kinds of motivations within self-determination theory.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
Rewards like freebies after a purchase are what kind of operant conditioning (+rein, -rein, + pun, - pun)
Positive reinforcement
What aspect of memory is tip-of-the-tongue an issue with (encoding, storage, or retrieval)?
Retrieval
Tool for studying the brain that uses magnetic technology and a figure 8 shapes device.
TMS
What structure connects the inner ear to the throat?
Eustachian tube
What eating disorder involves a pattern of eating a large amount of food in a short amount of time, and negative emotions afterward such as guilt or shame and does not involve purging behaviors?
Binge eating disorder
What is shaping in operant conditioning?
Getting closer and closer to a desired behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the behavior over time.
How many items can be held in short term memory?
7 plus or minus 2