Conditioning
Pavlovs dog is an example of this type of conditioning
What is classical conditioning?
The Prefrontal cortex, Anterior cingulate, and Association areas make up this system
What is the global brain workspace?
The final stage of the memory process
What is retrieval?
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, people and other living organisms, and characteristics, abstractions
What are concepts?
specialized cells that selectively detect and transmit sensory information to the brain
What are sensory receptors?
This form of conditioning explains voluntary behaviors
What is operant conditioning?
The understanding that we think, feel, and perceive
What is the theory of mind?
Serial position effect is a part of this memory process
What is memory retrieval
Step by step procedure used to solve problems
What is an algorithm?
The minimum amount of energy an organism can detect
What is the absolute threshold?
A reinforcer that is satisfying is this type of reinforcer
What is primary reinforcer
Decreased activity in the thalamus and the
prefrontal cortex is an effect of ____
What is sleep deprivation
The process of organized sets of neurons that are routinely activated together
What is consolidation?
Predicting probability based on ease of recall
What is availability heuristic?
The opening in the center of the eye. Its size is
controlled by the iris
What is the pupil?
Reinforcers guide behavior towards desired response through reinforcing successive approximations
What is Shaping behavior?
This drug increases the CNS activity and is medically used for weight control
What is Amphetamines?
Retrieval method in which one must identify present stimuli as having been previously presented
What is recognition?
This way of thinking is best when the problem only has a single right answer
What is convergent thinking?
Predisposition or readiness to perceive something in a
particular way
What is a perceptual set?
A puzzle box used by animals was used to test what law
What is Thorndykes Law of Effect?
Strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for a feeling of well-‐being
What is psychological dependence?
The rate at which long term memory begins to fade
What is the forgetting curve?
The formula to determine IQ
mental age / chronological age x 100
A binocular cue involving the turning inward of the eyes as an object gets closer
What is convergence