The brain's innermost and oldest region; it connects the brain and CNS.
What is the brainstem?
The fertilized egg that will develop into an embryo.
What is a zygote?
The conditioned response is no longer in effect.
What is extinction?
Occurs during the waking hours. Can involve fantasies or expectations of the future. Usually is not related to the task at hand and is actually a mild hallucination.
What are daydreams?
In an experiment this is the factor that the researcher manipulates in controlled experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The "little brain: that's responsible for movement coordination and balance management
What is the cerebellum?
Children's abnormalities caused by the mother's heavy drinking during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
A procedure to guide one's behavior toward a desired behavior using operant conditioning.
What is shaping?
Awareness of knowing what is happening inside and outside of itself.
What is conscious level?
This the subgroup of a population that gets treatment/independent variable.
What is a sample?
An area at the end of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement, discovered by Fritsch and Hitzig.
What is motor cortex?
One of Piaget's stages of development in which egocentrism is established.
What is preoperational stage?
The early stage in classical conditioning when one links neural and unconditioned stimulus, later begin to trigger conditioned response with only neural stimulus.
What is acquisition?
When Sally failed to notice a change in visible objects when her attention was elsewhere.
What is change blindness?
A test has to be consistent or show repeatability of results.
What is reliability?
Done to treat epilepsy; caused by cutting the corpus callosum resulting the isolation of the brain's hemispheres?
What is split brain?
A belief that the world is reliable and predictable according to Erik Erikson.
What is basic trust?
Neurons located in the frontal lobes that causes imitation, fires when performing actions.
What are mirror neurons?
In this sleeping stage, you won't be disturbed by noise.
What is stage 2?
A field that involves the analysis of numerical delta about representative samples of population.
What is statistics?
An application of magnetic resonance imaging that specifically reveals the brain's structure and its functioning.
What is fMRI?
One of Kohlberg's stage of moral reasoning in which abstract reasoning and ethical principals are applied
What is postconventional morality?
Reinforcing response that results a slower acquisition but less chance of extinction comparing to continuous reinforcements.
What is partial reinforcement?
A sleep disorder characterized by sudden/uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep, may go into Rem at inappropriate times-genetic.
What is narcolepsy?
These are the suggested rules for acting responsibly and morally when conducting research in clinical practices.
What are ethical guidelines?