Sensation/Perception
Consciousness
Learning/Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning/ Observational Learning
Extra Fun
100
The stimulation of sensory receptors and transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system.
What is Sensation.
100
The 'waking state'.
What is Conscious.
100
According to behaviorists, _____ is a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior that arises from practice or experience.​ ​
What is Learning.
100
A form of learning in which an organism learns to engage in certain behavior because of the effects of that behavior.
What is ​Operant Conditioning.
100
What is Selective Attention.
200
Neurons that fire in response to specific features of sensory stimuli.
What is feature detectors.
200
Biological view that suggests that acetylcholine and the pons stimulate responses that lead to dreaming.
What is the Activation-Synthesis Model.
200
A simple unlearned response to a stimulus.
What is a Reflex.
200
The behavior that manipulates the environment.
What is ​Operant Behavior.
200
What is Operant Conditioning.
300
The tendency to perceive a broken figure as being complete or whole.​
What is Closure.
300
Low amplitude brain waves that are emitted when we close our eyes and begin to relax before going to sleep.
What are ​Alpha Waves.
300
In Pavlov’s experiment, he conditioned his dog to salivate when it was shown a circle. Later, the dog salivated when it was shown other closed geometric figures—even squares. Through his experiment Pavlov demonstrated _____.​
What is ​Generalization.
300
An application of operant conditioning that assumes that any complex task can be broken down into a number of small steps; these steps can be shaped individually and then combined in sequence to form the correct behavioral chain.​ ​
What is Programmed Learning.
400
A place where receptor neurons transmit information about odors to the brain.
What is the Olfactory Nerve.
400
An altered state of consciousness in which people are highly suggestible and behave as though they are in a trance.
What is ​Hypnosis.
400
The recurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time.
What is ​Spontaneous Recovery.
400
​Learning that is hidden or concealed.
What is ​Latent Learning.
500
Part of the ear that has the function of increasing the pressure of air entering the ear.
What is the Middle Ear.
500
Drugs that generally act by slowing the activity of the central nervous system.
What is a ​Depressant.
500
These psychologists define learning as the process by which organisms change the way they represent the environment because of experience.​
What are Cognitive Psychologist.
500
The acquisition of knowledge and skills by watching others rather than by means of direct experience.​
What is ​Observational Learning.
500
Who is Albert Bandura and the Bobo Doll study.
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