What part of the brain is responsible for decision making?
What is frontal lobe
Goal-driven attention is known as..
What is top down attention
Who is the father of psychology?
Who is Freud
In Pavlov's experiment with dogs the “Food” was the:
What is unconditioned stimulus
What is the capacity of short-term memory
What is 7+-2
What is the inability to recognize faces?
What is prosopagnosia
A situation in which individuals try to attend to only one source of information, while ignoring other stimuli.
What is selective attention
A _______ sample best represents the characteristics of a larger population.
What is random
Taking away your child’s Ipad when they have been naughty is an example of what kind of operant conditioning?
What is negative punishment
What part of the brain is responsible storing emotional memories?
What is the amygdala
A phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
What is the Thatcher Effect
What is it called when a stimulus that is not attended is not perceived, even though a person might be looking directly at it?
What is inattentional blindness
Mean, median, and mode are measures of what?
What is central tendency
In Bandura's Bobo Doll experiment demonstrating observational learning of aggression, what was the independent variable?
Whether there was an aggressive model
Inability to retrieve previously formed memories
What is retrograde amnesia
What is characterized by an impaired visual control of the direction of arm reaching to a visual target, accompanied by defective hand orientation and grip formation?
What is optic ataxia
What theory has two primary stages of attention: pre-attentive and the focused attention stages?
What is Feature Integration Theory
In an experiment, the outcome variable that is measured is called the _____________.
What is dependent variable
Once something has been learnt by classical conditioning, what phenomenon suggests it can never be completely unlearnt?
What is spontaneous recovery
Primacy effect occurs due to:
What is the rehearsal process
What is the phenomenon that the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when it appears close in time to the first?
What is attentional blink
This structure is the primary relay system in the brain.
What is thalamus
Which type of reinforcement schedule yields the greatest persistence of action?
What is variable reinforcement
The idea that we remember more information from the beginning and the end rather than information from the middle is known as:
What is the serial position curve