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Duck Duck Goose
Memory (Again)
Other?
Associative (Again)
100
Neurogenesis
The process that which neurons die and are created
100
What is random sample and random assignment?
Random Sample is when you take a random sample of people from a population to be in the study while Random Assignment is when you assign them to one of the conditions randomly
100
Should you pull an all-nighter for this exam?
No because you won't be able to retain everything if you don't get good sleep
100
What are Descriptive Stats?
This is the Data that is collected
100
What was the Conditioned Drug Response?
This is when a stimulus associated with a drug can produce effects just like the drug
200
Placebo Effect
The patient is lead to believe that the treament is the real thing, but it isn't, and we see that it actually "works"
200
What are inferential stats?
what can you infer from the data, the conclusions
200
What is confabulation?
This is when we create plausible sounding memories based on what we think could have happened or what other people have said
200
Cathy lives in an apartment building with a frustrating plumbing system. Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and causes Cathy to jump back. Over time, Cathy has begun jumping back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.
conditioned stimulus - The Flushing sound conditioned response - Jumping back unconditioned stimulus - The first time that she was in the shower and it got really hot after someone flushed unconditioned response - Jumping back because the water became really hot
200
What two concepts lack contiguity?
Conditioned Taste Aversion and Conditioned Drug Response
300
State Dependent Learning
A substance alters your consciousness and when you learn under this state, you can remember everything again when you enter that state again
300
What is Higher Order Conditioning?
This is with Vivian and her fear of rats - it starts with rats, then gradually moves its way up and to other things, like garbage and nighttime
300
What is an emotional memory? Where is it stored?
It is a memory that is attached to a powerful emotional situation and they are stored in the amygdala
300
Who inadvertently discovered Classical Conditioning?
Pavlov... the name rings a bell...
300
What is Learned Helplessness?
It is the learned form of depression
400
Is media reporting on research accurate, why or why not?
Not really because they don't really know the research and could easily take a correlation and turn it into a cause and effect situation
400
Example of Fixed Ratio
being paid for every 15 objects you make (factory work)
400
What did we learn from the "Thief"?
We learned that Eye Witness Testimony is not always accurate in regards that people all claim to have seen a variety of things
400
400 Points for both teams!!
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400
How does one get OCD?
They feel anxiety about something and so they go back and check and they get a "reward" of feeling ok and the relief of no more anxiety and if they continue with it, it could become compulsive
500
What is Extinction?
Its when a species dies.... No wait... We overexpose a person to their phobia until the "get over it". The phobia can resurface whenever though...
500
Go through the FDA review process in order (all steps and a short blurb about each)
Preclinical - animals, safety and efficacy Phase 1 - healthy humans, looking for toxicity Phase 2 - few sick people, safety and efficacy Phase 3 - everyone they want to market to, safety and efficacy
500
What was the study with the mall?
This is when the researchers looked at how easy it is to plant false memories
500
A group of middle school students were given a short course in speed reading. The instructor was curious if a monetary incentive would influence performance on a reading test taken at the end of the course. Half the students were offered $5 for obtaining a certain level of performance on the test, the other half were not offered money.
IV - Money DV - Grade Experimental Group - Money Control Group - No Money
500
Ratio Interval Fixed Variable
Ratio - based on behavior Interval - based on time Fixed - rate Variable - subject to change
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