Sensation versus Perception
The smallest amount of stimulus that can be detected 50 % of the time.
What does the term absolute threshold refer to?
Who proposed the social learning theory?
Albert Bandura.
this problem-solving method is a step-by-step problem-solving formula that provides a step by step instructions.
What is an algorithm?
prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, cerebellum.
Which part of the brain is involved in memory?
Pain that signals some type of tissue damage
what is inflammatory pain
What are the 5 senses?
Audition(hearing), Olfaction(smell), Gustation(taste), Somatosensation(touch), and Vision.
In classical conditioning, when does the stimulus occur?
before the response.
These 2 ways of thinking are described as
"thinking outside the box" and the ability to provide a well-established or correct answer to a solution or problem.
What is divergent and convergent thinking?
The loss of long-term memory that occurs as a result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
What is Amnesia?
Short-term memory storage lasts 15 to 30 seconds.
How long does short-term memory last?
Which two stimuli occur in the form of waves?
Visual and auditory
who conducted the famous taste aversion study with rats.
Garcia and Koelling.
What is the decision bias that focuses on information that confirms existing beliefs
What is hindsight bias?
Encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.
How does memory function?
the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.
What is cognitive thinking?
cellphone brightness does not change, but its ability to be detected as a change in illumination varies between two contexts.
What's an example of Weber's law applied to the visual and auditory senses?
What occurs when an organism makes a connection between a stimulus and an event that occurs together in the environment?
Associative learning
Charles Spearman, a British Psychologist, believed that "intelligence consisted of being measured and compared among individuals is called...
What is the "G" factor or General Factor?
Semantic, Visual, and Acoustic
What are the 3 types of encoding?
According to this idea, your genetic potential is a fixed quantity, but whether you reach your full intellectual potential is dependent upon the environmental stimulation you experience, especially in childhood.
What is the idea of Range of Reaction?
This field of psychology refers to the form or pattern.
What is Gestalt psychology?
This device helps receive incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain.
Cochlear implants help?
According to Raymond Cattell, these theories are divided into two components.
What are the components, and how do they work?
What is Crystallized intelligence and
Fluid intelligence.
Fluid Intelligence- the ability to see complex relationships and solve problems.
Crystalized Intelligence - acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it.
a record of an atypical and unusual event that has a very strong emotional association.
What is flash bulb memory?
IQ testing is most evident in?
educational or clinical settings.