Biological Basis of Behavior
A chemical substance that alters the brain
What is a psychoactive drug?
Plays a crucial role in learning, memory, and spatial navigation in the brain.
What is the hippocampus
The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending past puberty.
What is adolescence?
Changing people’s attitudes, potentially influencing their actions.
What is persuasion?
What is bipolar disorder?
The division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency.
What is automatic processing?
What is a morpheme?
Theory we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.
What is cognitive dissonance theory
Theory that proposes positive emotions broaden our awareness, which overtime helps us build novel and meaningful skills
Theory that the retina contains three different types of color receptors
If one object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as closer
What is Interposition?
Agents that can reach the embryo or fetus that causes prenatal harm.
What is a teratogen?
Theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize cost.
What is social exchange theory?
A disorder characterized by extreme emotional expression and a need for attention.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
Monitors our sense of body movement and balance/position
What is the vestibular system
Narrowing and expanding the number of possible problem solutions
What is convergent/divergent thinking?
In operant conditioning a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable or specified number of responses.
Experiment which examined how one adjusts to the behavior and thinking of a group
What are Asch’s conformity experiments?
A biomedical therapy for severe depression where a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized person.
Electrodes placed on the scalp measure electrical activity in the neurons
What is electroencephalography (EEG)
Theory that intelligence is best classified into three areas that predict real world success: analytical, creative, and practical.
What is Sternberg‘s triarchic theory?
Thorndikes principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.
What is law of effect?
Emotion-arousing stimuli trigger our bodily responses and simultaneous subjective experience.
What is Cannon; Bard Theory
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?