Micro Makeup
The nervous system is separated into two other systems, the CNS and the ____.
What is the PNS?
This is the minimum amount of stimulation required to detect a stimulus.
What is Absolute Threshold?
This is the awareness of ourselves.
What is consciousness?
This is the name of the box Skinner used to conduct his experiments.
People first tend to develop this when forming a concept.
What is a prototype?
The endocrine system, using this, is able to communicate.
What are hormones?
This messaging is below one’s absolute threshold.
What is Subliminal Messaging?
Processing system that consists of implicit and explicit processing.
What is Dual Processing?
Pavlov was testing this type of conditioning.
What is Classical Conditioning?
This is the tendency to look for information that is consistent with one's belief.
What is Confirmation Bias?
These drugs amplify neurotransmitter activity.
What are agonists?
There are no receptor cells in this part of the eye.
What is the Blind Spot?
This is the conscious awareness when it is focused on certain aspects, even though multiple stimuli are occuring.
What is Selective Attention.
Skinner was testing this type of conditioning.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Mental Set and Functional Fixedness are two types of this.
This physician found a language center in the temporal lobe as well as that injury to it would lead to fluent but meaningless english.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
This man, Ernst Weber, discovered that two stimuli must differ by a constant _____ to be perceptible.
This is when you attend to one voice in a house full of party guests talking.
What is the Cocktail Party Effect?
A response is this, after it's conditioned stimulus is executed and nothing happens.
What is extinct?
This hypothesis states that our language shapes our thinking.
What is Whorf's Linguistic Determinism?
An excess of this drug is linked to schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
There are about this many cones in the eye.
What is 7 million?
The famous experiment with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, along with the Gorilla passing through students passing a ball tests what type of blindness?
What is Inattentional Blindness?
This is added during conditioning to achieve the desirable response.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
There are these many phonemes in the English language.
What is 40?