Sensation and perception
The means by which information is transferred into experiences, objects, events, sounds, tastes, etc. (our understanding and experience of sensory information)
What is perception?
This decreases the likelihood that a particular response will occur
What is punishment?
A drug that blocks or impedes a neurotransmitter
What is an antagonist?
A response that is automatic or innate
What is a reflex?
The dendrite, cell body, axon, terminal buttons, and synapse are all parts of what
What is the neuron structure?
The reception of stimulation from the environment and the encoding of it into the nervous system
What is sensation?
This is a device that was designed to deliver a desirable or not desirable reinforcement to rats
What is the Skinner box?
This connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum
The loss of a conditioned response after the condition stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
This man wanted to make psychology and objective science and is often referred to as the father of behaviorism
Who is John B Watson?
These psychology laws explain how the human brain organizes visual information into meaningful wholes
What are gestalt principles?
This is a training to respond only when a particular stimulus is present
What is discrimination training?
The control centers in the brain for one side of the body are in the opposite hemisphere in the brain
What is contralateralization?
This Russian physiologist studied dog drool, and wanna know about prize for his discovery of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is a class of visuomotor neurons in the frontal lobe that fire specifically, both when performing in action and observing another performing an action
What are mirror neurons?
As seen in the monkey business illusion, attending to one thing can cause us to completely miss something else this is known as…?
What is inattentional blindness?
Responses that produce good effects will be repeated and responses that yield negative effects will not be repeated are the central ideas of what?
What is Thorndike’s law of effect?
This part of the body acts as a regulator of many bodily functions in order to keep us at homeostasis
What is the hypothalamus?
After time passes, the conditioned response returns despite no further training
What is spontaneous recovery?
This is a change in the electrical charge of a neuron in relation to the change outside of the neuron
What is an action potential?
In this psychological phenomenon, we learned that what we see influences our perception of our other senses as well
What is the rubber hand illusion?
This is an operant conditioning technique that reinforces successively closer approximations of a desired response until the response occurs
What is shaping?
This medication allows neurotransmitters to sit in the synapse longer
What is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)?
This is a change in a subject’s behavior to a given situation brought about by his/her repeated experiences in that situation
What is learning?
Research has shown that an overproduction of this neurotransmitter has been linked to schizophrenia, on the other hand, an underproduction of the neurotransmitter has been linked to Parkinson’s disease
What is dopamine?