Unit 2
These are the building blocks of the nervous system, they come in different forms such as sensory, motor, etc.
What is a Neuron?
this type of learning is when a response naturally elicited by one stimulus becomes to be elicited by a different formally neutral stimulus
What is Classical Conditioning?
This term is when someone prefers information that only supports their own preexisting beliefs, and negates or ignores information that goes against it.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This is the first stage of Piaget's theory of development, which happens at 0-2 years old. in this stage, the baby has Coordination of senses with motor responses and sensory curiosity about the world.
What is Sensory Motor?
These are feelings influenced by our personal beliefs; They predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
What are attitudes?
This type of neurotransmitter is responsible for pleasure.
What is dopamine?
This is the belief that the world decides your "fate", or what happens to you, and so you have no influence on what happens, nor can you change it.
What is External Locus of Control?
This term is when someone can only see an object for its intended purpose, not any others. This tends to limit creativity.
What is Functional Fixedness?
What is Preconventional Morality?
This is the tendency for people to believe that the world is just and that people, therefore, get what they deserve and deserve what they get. People who belive this tend to be more religious.
What is the Just World Phenomenon?
This condition is when your ability to comprehend/understand language is impaired.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
These neurons are in the frontal lobe of your brain; they fire when performing certain actions or observing others do so. has the ability to enable empathy or imitation.
What are Mirror Neurons?
These are the set of rules in a language by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, or sentences.
i.e) adding -ed to the end of a word signifies that it happened in the past.
What is semantics?
A psychologist who believed that our cognitive abilities were the driving force behind biological development. he believed that we gain certain abilities as we move through different stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This is the persuasion strategy of getting a person to say no to a huge request only to agree to comply with a smaller one
What is Door in the Face Phenomenon?
A Computerized Tomography, also known as a CT or CAT scan, shows this about the brain
What is Functionality?
This term represents the process of when a stimulus causes the conditioned response, an association has been formed. The Neutral Stimulus now serves as a warning and becomes the conditioned stimulus
What is Acquisition?
This theory observes the rise in standardized intelligence scores over time.
What is the Flynn Effect?
This is the last stage of Erikson's Theory, it occurs in middle adulthood. during this stage, they work and family becomes the dominant social setting in their lives.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
This is the tendency to for an individual’s performance to improve when simple or well-rehearsed tasks are performed in the presence of others
What is Social facilitation?
This sleep condition is more likely in people over 50, it causes random and temporary disruption in the breathing cycle and can result in irregular breathing, gasping for air, etc.
What is Sleep Apnea?
This type of learning is when you learn through an "Ah ha" moment. oneself experiences a flash of inspiration and understanding but isn't just trial and error.
What is insight learning?
This Psychologist was one of the first to create a series of intelligence tests to measure the mental abilities of school children. While the test is only being used for school children, the test left the Psychologist to distinguish a child's mental age compared to their chronological age.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This Psychologist believed that as human beings develop intellectually, they also pass through different levels of moral reasoning
To research this idea, Kohlberg interviewed each subject after they were presented with the dilemma and Analyzed the subject’s answers to place them into one of three levels of moral reasoning.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
It is the tendency to see members of the outgroup as very similar to one another; Can lead to “Scapegoating.”
What is Out group Homogeneity Effect?