Biological Bases of Behavior
Sleep cycle order
What is Waking Beta, Waking Alpha, Non-REM 1, Non-REM 2, Non-REM 3, REM?
The tendency to perform worse or exert less effort in groups
What is social loafing?
Blank are born, Blank are made
What is psychopaths and sociopaths?
Memory aids and other tricks we use to remember information
What is mnemonics?
Measure of how much scores vary around the mean
What is standard deviation?
Name of alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates
What are depressants?
What is foot-in-the-door tendency?
Prolonged negative thoughts and outlooks
What is pessimism?
Memory involved in automatic motor movement
What is procedural memory?
Our sense of position regarding our body and its parts
What is kinesthesia?
Disorder where you can't recognize or remember faces
What is prosopagnosia?
The unselfish concern for others
What is altruism?
Fear of and avoidance of places where one has felt loss of control or panic
What is agoraphobia?
The tendency to remember names or info at the beginning or end of a list
What is serial-position effect?
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
What is latent learning?
The idea that some functions are more dominant in one side of the brain
What is hemispheric specialization?
The idea that we act to reduce the conflict between our thoughts and actions
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
Procedure for combining the results of hundreds of different therapy studies in order to determine its effectiveness
What is meta-analysis?
Thinking that narrows the available problem solutions to determine the best one
What is convergent thinking?
Tests that predict a person’s future performance and capacity to learn
What is aptitude tests?
Shows brains consumption of chemical fuel, glucose
What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan?
A view that your race or ethnicity is superior to others
What is ethnocentric?
The degeneration of motor neurons and bodily control
What is Parkinson's disease?
People that have an exceptionally high ability in one intelligence factor, but scored below average or even exceptionally low in the others
What is savants?
Catatonic, disorganized, paranoid, residual, and undifferentiated
What is schizophrenia spectrum subtypes?