Put on Ur Thinking Cap
My Spidey Senses
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Key People
Leave-in Conditioner
I Forgot!
100
The area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
100
The five primary tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and ______________
What is umami?
100
Dubbed the "Father of Psychology" after opening the first psychology research lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
Pioneered research on operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
100
Short-term memory is located in this section of the brain
What is the frontal lobe?
200
The lobe that houses the primary visual cortex
What is the occipital lobe?
200
Part of the eye that is entirely made up of cones
What is the fovea?
200
Established the perspective of functionalism; published first psychology textbook; co-proposed the earliest theory of emotion
Who is William James?
200
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?
200
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
300
The part of the neuron labeled H
What are the terminal buttons?
(axon terminals)
300
The only one of our five senses that is not routed through the thalamus
What is smell (olfaction)?
300
Psychologist known for the unconscious mind and is not as respected in the modern day
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
Type of conditioning: my mouth waters when I see the Raising Canes sign
What is classical conditioning?
300
The effect that happens when your memory is twisted to remember something that did not actually happen (i.e. Remembering a robbers face and height completely wrong based on what others have said)
What is the Misinformation Effect?
400
The branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
What is inattentional blindness?
400
Psychologist known for their activism in terms of bettering psychiatric hospitals and normalizing mental health issues through protected policies
Who is Dorthea Dix?
400
Applying something to remove unwanted behavior
What is a positive punishment?
400
Knowing the answer, but you can't seem to retrieve it from your memory
What is Tip-of-the-Tongue phenomenon?
500
Brain structure that helps you keep your balance on the tightrope
What is the cerebellum?
500
The theory of color vision that explains why we see a red afterimage after staring at a green screen
What is opponent-process theory?
500
Developed behaviorism; argued psychology should only study observable behavior; conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
Who is John B. Watson?
500
Removing something unpleasant to encourage behavior (EX: replacing the batteries in the smoke detector to eliminate the obnoxiously loud beeping)
What is negative reinforcement?
500
Anchor points to help you recall memory when needed
What are Retrieval Cues?
600
The part of the neuron labeled E
What is the myelin sheath?
600
This type of processing allows us to make sense of the following:
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What is top-down processing?
600
Studied learning/conditioning by using a dog's salivation schedule
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
600
Explains why after being conditioned to fear a white rat, Little Albert was also fearful of other white, furry objects
What is stimulus generalization?
600
Jason Bourne's condition in The Bourne Identity
(has no memory of who he is, where he lives, what he does, etc. but can form new memories)
What is retrograde amnesia?
700
The "master gland" of the endocrine system
What is the pituitary gland?
700
The three tiniest bones in the human body (collectively known as the ossicles) that transmit vibrations of the eardrum
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
700
The first female president of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
700
When a stimulus is repeated so often that you no longer show a response to the stimulus
What is habituation?
700
The moment where your brain tricks you into thinking you have an earlier memory of the situation. (i.e. "I've experienced this before")
What is Deja Vu?