Scientific Foundations
When a researcher explains the true purpose of a study immediately after the study is complete.
What is debriefing?
Drugs that block the reabsorption of serotonin neurotransmitters in the synapse during neural transmission.
What are SSRIs
Being able to tell the color of an object, even in the dark demonstrates this Perception Concept.
What is Color Constancy?
Pavlov's experiment with a dog in an example of this kind of conditioning.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Creativity is associated with this type of thinking.
What is Divergent Thinking?
This female psychologist documented the poor conditions of mental asylums, which eventually led to their reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This part of the Peripheral Nervous System regulates unconscious bodily actions, like digesting food.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The part of the ear that soundwaves hit first after travelling through the auditory canal.
What is the eardrum?
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
What is Latent Learning?
Marty used this part of his brain to memorize the layout of his neighborhood.
What is the Hippocampus?
The average of a number set.
What is mean?
Due to its effect on the Central Nervous System, alcohol is an example of this type of drug.
What is a depressant?
Jeannette does better on her exam when she takes it in the same room where she studies, demonstrating this concept.
What is the Context Effect?
Madeline wants her son to be well-behaved when they go to church. For every five minutes he sits still, she gives him a piece of candy. Madeline is using this type of Conditioning.
What is Operant Conditioning.
When people have better recall of things that occur at the beginning of a sequence.
What is the Primacy Effect?
The number that appears most often in a number set.
What is mode?
This part of the Autonomic Nervous System is most likely responsible for an increase in heart rate while experiencing anxiety.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Refers to the transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses.
What is transduction.
Laramie suddenly realized that he could put some of his groceries in a cabinet after repeatedly failing to fit them into a pantry. Laramie demonstrated this type of learning.
What is Insight Learning?
The part of the brain where declarative memories are stored.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of numbers.
What is Standard Deviation?
The inclination for certain cognitive processes to be specialized to one hemisphere of the brain or the other.
What is brain lateralization.
Being able to tell exact bodily position without looking at the body is an example of this sense.
What is Kinesthetic Sense.
Ervin always buckles his seat belt to stop the beeping sound his car makes when the seat belt is unbuckled. This is an example of ________ ____________.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Thinking about the meaning of someone's name in order to remember it is an example of this kind of this encoding technique.
What is Semantic Encoding?