The area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
The five primary tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and ______________
What is umami?
Dubbed the "Father of Psychology" after opening the first psychology research lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Pioneered research on operant conditioning by getting rats to press a lever in his famous "Box"
Who is B.F. Skinner?
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded
What is context-dependent memory?
The lobe that houses the primary visual cortex
What is the occipital lobe?
Part of the eye that includes cones and rods?
What is the retina?
Studied observational learning in his Bobo doll experiment
Who is Albert Bandura?
Giving your puppy a treat to lay down, then to roll on his back, then to roll to back to his stomach, and then only when he fully rolls over
What is shaping?
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
The part of the neuron labeled H
What are the terminal buttons?
(axon terminals)
The only one of our five senses that is not routed through the thalamus
What is smell (olfaction)?
Graphed the Forgetting Curve
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
Type of conditioning: my mouth waters when I see the Taco Bell sign
What is classical conditioning?
The assumed capacity of short-term memory
What is 7 plus or minus 2 ?
The branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is inattentional blindness?
Psychologist known for their research on the misinformation effect; famous car crash study
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
The schedule of reinforcement that is seen in most cases of gambling (lottery, slot machines,etc)
What is a variable-ratio(VR) schedule?
Occurs when old information interferes with the retention of new information
What is proactive interference?
Brain structure that helps you keep your balance on the tightrope
What is the cerebellum?
The theory of color vision that explains why we see a red afterimage after staring at a green screen
What is opponent-process theory?
Developed behaviorism; argued psychology should only study observable behavior; conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
Who is John B. Watson?
Removing something unpleasant to encourage behavior (EX: replacing the batteries in the smoke detector to eliminate the obnoxiously loud beeping)
What is negative reinforcement?
Remembering your first swim lesson is an example of what type of memory
What is episodic memory?
The neurotransmitter responsible for controlling skeletal muscles and memory; low levels of it are linked to Alzheimer's disease
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
This type of processing allows us to make sense of the following:
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What is top-down processing?
Triarchic theory of intelligence: analytical, practical, creative
Who is Sternberg?
Explains why after being conditioned to fear a white rat, Little Albert was also fearful of other white, furry objects
What is stimulus generalization?
Jason is in a car accident and forgets his life before the accident.
What is retrograde amnesia?
What is the "master gland" of the endocrine system? What controls this "master gland"?
What is the pituitary gland and hypothalamus?
The SCIENTIFIC name for the three tiniest bones in the human body (collectively known as the ossicles) that transmit vibrations of the eardrum
What are the incus, malleus, stapes?
Humans have an innate ability to learn language; universal grammar
Who is Noam Chomsky?
When a conditioned stimulus becomes the unconditioned stimulus in a secondary classical conditioning stage of learning
What is higher-order conditioning?
A type of sensory memory specific to vision
What is iconic memory?