Conditioning
The stimulus that elicits no response.
What is the neutral stimulus?
The middle value in the distribution, with half of the other values below and the other half above the middle value.
What is the median?
The smallest units of speech that convey meaning.
What are morphemes?
The fatty tissue layer that encases the axons of certain neurons.
What is the myelin sheath?
A variable whose variation does not depend on that of another.
What is the independent variable?
The response as a result of classical conditioning with a neutral stimulus.
What is the conditioned response?
The difference between the lowest and highest values in a distribution.
What is range?
The distinctive sound units in a language.
What are phonemes?
The reabsorption of neurotransmitter molecules by the same neuron that released them.
What is reuptake?
The patient who had an iron rod driven through his skull that destroyed much of his frontal lobe but miraculously survived.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The effect of learning being more effective when it is spread out in consistency rather than crammed in one session.
What is the spacing effect?