This is the name of the fatty covering around the axon, which provides protection and insulation.
What is MYELIN SHEATH (p.42)?
100
Patient H.M. was an example of how damage to this forebrain structure can hinder the formation of new memories.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS (p.53)?
100
Learning is define as a change in behavior, resulting from THIS
What is EXPERIENCE (p.197)?
100
When a conditioned response begins to weaken when removed from its pairing, this process occurs.
What is EXTINCTION (p.204)?
100
This neurotransmitter plays a major role in our brain's reward circuitry, reducing pain, and motivating future behavior
What are ENDORPHINS (p.47)?
200
This is the site where communication occurs between neurons through neurotransmitters
What is SYNAPSE (p.43)?
200
Breathing and heart rate are only two of the functions controlled by this critical hindbrain structure.
What is the MEDULLA (p.53)?
200
When categorizing learning, behaviorists have organized types of learning into THIS number of categories.
What is THREE (TABLE p. 198)?
200
If "Little Albert" did not cry when presented with the rabbit mask, he would have been utilizing this process.
What is DISCRIMINATION (p.205)?
200
A "pop quiz" would be a good example of this high efficacy schedule of reinforcement.
What is VARIABLE INTERVAL (p.215)?
300
The communication WITHIN one neuron utilizes this kind of energy, while communication BETWEEN multiple neurons uses this type.
What is ELECTRICAL and CHEMICAL? (p.44)
300
This forebrain structure plays a crucial role in experiencing reward, and motivating behavior.
What is the BASAL GANGLIA (p.57)?
300
This scientist's experiments with "Puzzle Boxes" helped prove that responses followed by favorable consequences are more likely to occur again, and vice versa?
Who is THORNDIKE (p.211)?
300
If a loud buzz continued until a rat moved a block off of a button, and the rat was conditioned to quckly remove the block on successive trials, this kind of operant conditioning would be employed.
What is NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT (p. 214)?
300
This neurotransmitter is replicated through the use of alcohol, due to its inhibition of action potentials.
What is GABA (p.47)?
400
Of the three major divisions of the nervous system, this division is responsible for responding to sensory input.
What is AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (p.41)?
400
While this lobe is responsible for the majority of auditory processing, it also plays an important role in perceiving objects and faces.
What are the TEMPORAL LOBES (p.59)?
400
Operant and Classical conditioning fall under this broader type of learning.
What is ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING (p.198)?
400
Tolman's study of rats' improvement on maze times, even without reinforcement, is an example of this type of learning.
What is LATENT LEARNING (p.221)?
400
Reinforcing a behavior after that behavior has occurred a certain number of times is enforcing this schedule of reinforcement
What is FIXED RATIO (p.216)?
500
These are the two elemental compounds that are crucial to the development of an action potential.
What is SODIUM and POTASSIUM (Slides)?
500
This Greek word for "little man" is the term for the representation of a human's somatosensory area.
What is HOMUNCULUS (p.59)?
500
When an individual gains sudden knowledge of their problem's solution, it is categorized as this kind of learning.
What is INSIGHT LEARNING (SLIDES)?
500
This term means that the conditioned stimulus MUST precede the unconditioned stimulus.
What is CONTIGENCY (Slides)?
500
Research has found significant connections between the transmitter acetylcholine and this degenerative disease.