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This pain pathway registers local, sharp pain.
What is the Fast pathway?
The theory that color perception depends on receptors that make antagonistic responses to three pairs of colors. Complementary colors.
What is the Opponent Process Theory?
This disorder involves loud snoring and repeated periods of not breathing for at least 10 seconds during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
Pavlov’s dogs helped demonstrate this kind of learning, where a neutral stimulus begins triggering an automatic response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
This process involves reinforcing successive steps toward a target behavior, like teaching a pigeon to play ping‑pong.
What is shaping?
Which defect in the lens causes the focus of light from distant objects to fall short of the retina. Close objects seen clearly; distant objects appear blurry.
What is nearsightedness?
The failure to see all visible objects or events in a visual display because one’s attention is focused elsewhere.
What is Inattentional Blindness?
This stage of sleep features rapid eye movements, dreaming, and virtual paralysis.
What is REM sleep?
Little Albert showing fear of all furry animals after conditioning demonstrates this process.
What is stimulus generalization?
If reinforcement stops, a learned behavior gradually weakens and disappears through this process.
What is extinction?
_____ are sensory input produced when auditory stimuli reach our ears.
What are sound waves?
Figure 1 represents...
What is the Muller-lye illusion?
This 24-hour biological cycle happens in both humans and many other species; it is primarily involved in sleep regulation.
What is the Circadian Rhythm?
In operant conditioning, behaviors increase when they are followed by favorable consequences—this principle represents...
What is reinforcement?
When a behavior is extinguished in one setting but reappears in the original environment, it demonstrates this effect.
What is the renewal effect?
The point where axons from the inside half of
each eye cross and then project to the opposite half of the brain.
What is the Optic chiasm?
Figure 2 represents...
What is a perceptual set?
This term describes a person needing more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
This type of reinforcement strengthens a behavior by removing something unpleasant, often mistaken for punishment.
What is negative reinforcement?
Slot machines rely on this reinforcement schedule, which produces the strongest resistance to extinction.
What is a variable‑ratio schedule?
This process is where eyes become less sensitive to light in high illumination.
What is Light adaptation?
This theory states, “The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.”
What is Gestalt's Psychology?
This psychologist argued that dreams disguise their true meaning through symbols because their main purpose is wish fulfillment.
Who is Freud?
Bandura showed that people learn by watching others, requiring attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation—this type of learning represents...
What is observational learning?
Tolman’s rats formed “cognitive maps” of mazes even without reinforcement, showing this type of learning.
What is latent learning?