BF is My BF
Potent Potables
Achieve to Perceive
Problems & Decisions
Anatomy
100
Example: Giving a child a piece of candy when they don't make fun of grandma
What is Positive Reinforcement
100
This is the time period during the 1950's where a shift in psychological research went from behaviorism to operation of the mind
What is The Cognitive Revolution
100
Term defined as experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses
What is Perception
100
This is a "rule of thumb" that likely provides the correct answer to a problem, but isn't foolproof
What is a Heuristic
100
This lobe is responsible vision processing
What is the occipital lobe
200
Example: This is a stimulus that is paired with a unconditioned stimulus in Classical Conditioning; eventually elicits a similar response as the UCS
What is a Neutral Stimulus (NS)
200
Founder of the first psychology lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
200
This is the term that is associated with processing of environmental stimuli to the proper sensory cortex
What is Sensation
200
This occurs when we selectively look for information that conforms to a hypothesis. Because of this, we tend to overlook arguing information
What is Confirmation Bias
200
This part of the neuron is responsible for turning neurotransmitters into the electrical signals
What is the cell body (or soma)
300
Example: When you get grounded for making fun of grandma. Shame on you.
What is Negative Punishment
300
Name a function for swearing (inter- or intra-individual)
pain reduction, stress relief, confidence, credibility, signals emotion, group bonding, humor, identity marker, inhibition of aggression, persuasiveness
300
This is the type of processing where perception is guided by previous knowledge and experience
What is Top-Down processing
300
This is when a strong correlation between two items appears to exist, but doesn't. Seen a lot in stereotyping
What is Illusory Correlation
300
This part of the brain is mainly responsible for sensory procession (pain, touch, etc.)
What is parietal lobe?
400
This is when a CS-CR relationship that was previously extinguished suddenly reappears
What is Spontaneous Recovery
400
This debatably "hyped" part of neuroanatomy is activated for humans (and monkeys) when they execute a motor function and when they observe another execute a similar function`
What is Mirror Neurons
400
This type of processing is when perception begins with pieces of information that lead to recognizing a whole pattern
What is Bottom-Up Processing
400
This states that the larger the # of individuals that are randomly drawn from a population, the more representative the resulting group will be of the entire population
What is The Law of Large Numbers
400
This part of the brain is associated with speech production and found in the frontal lobe
What is Broca's Area
500
Name this Schedule: Every hour my child doesn't make fun of grandma, I give her a cupcake
What is Fixed Interval
500
Name one part of the Nuremberg Code
Participant Consent, Yield Fruitful Results, Results should justify the experiment, Avoid Unnecessary Harm, No experiments where death is expected, Risk should never exceed benefit, Proper equipment and facilities, Trained professionals, Right for participants to end study, prepared to end study at any time
500
Name at least TWO of the Rules (or Principles) of Organization
Figure-Ground, Closure, Similarity, Proximity, Continuity, Simplicity
500
This is the tendency to focus on a specific characteristic of the problem that keeps you from arriving to a solution. An example of this is functional fixedness.
What is Fixation
500
Pinker theorized that this (running from the amygdala, through the hypothalamus, to the grey matter of the midbrain) is a biological reason for swearing
What is the "Rage Circuit"
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