Biological Bases of Behavior
This lobe of the brain is responsible for vision.
Occipital Lobe
This stage of sleep is where dreams occur.
REM sleep stage
Children at a young age struggle to understand other people's perspectives
Egocentrism
Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effort together
Social Loafing
This eating disorder leads to weight loss of at least 15% ideal weight, distorted image. major calorie restriction excessive exercise
Anorexia nervosa
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating emotion, specifically aggression and fear.
Amygdala
This concept is a step-by-step procedure to get a solution.
Algorithm
This is the stage where children begin to use logical thinking but are still limited to concrete concepts and cannot handle abstract reasoning
Concrete operational
Thoughts grow stronger when you're in groups with similar beliefs
Group Polarization
Most people use more than one perspective.
Elective
This part of the brain is responsible for planning, organizing information, carrying out goals.
Executive Function
This type of memory conscious retrieval.
Explicit memory
Get used to a regular stimulus and stop responding (startle less to a loud noise w/ time)
Habituation
Helping others/doing good so we can get good back
Social reciprocity norm
Flat Affect
This nuerotransmitter is responsible for movement, memory, and learning.
Acetylocholine
Name the three parts of the multi store model.
Sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory.
Set of rules by which we derive meaning (adding -ed makes something past tense
Semantics
One of the big five personality, high levels= being organized, & careful while low levels = Disorganized & messy
Conscientiousness
Individual has a genetic predisposition, disease must be triggered.
Diathesis Stress Model
In a reflex arc, the interneuron is located here.
The CNS, specifically the spinal cord
This is the difference between elaborative rehearsal and maintanence rehearsal
maintanence: repeat to remember short term
elaborate: connects idea to something that has meaning to remember long term
This is the zone of proximal development is what learners can do.
Zone A
Humans seek optimal levels of arousal, easier tasks require more arousal, harder tasks need less, and best performance is at moderate level of performance
The three stages of the general adaptation syndrome.
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion