Sensation and Perception
Light waves, sound waves, and chemicals all become the same kind of signal. The name for the process of that conversion
Transduction
You blank on a classmates name. Which of the three memory processes failed?
Retrieval
A dog gets a treat for sitting. Name the operant quadrant
Positive reinforcement
You are not thinking of your home address but when asked you could repeat it. What level of consciousness is it?
Preconsciousness
You put on a necklace in the morning and stop feeling it by noon. Name the process and its evolutionary purpose.
Sensory adaptation; information overload
You read a chapter with a show on and remember none of it. Which process failed?
Encoding
Negative reinforcement
Name the three theories of conciousness
Global workspace, integrated information, higher order thought.
Which sense reaches emotion and memory structures the quickest? Why?
Smell; it skips the thalamus and goes directly to the amygdala.
A student rereads her notes six times before an exam and feels ready. She bombs the short answer and essay questions. What went wrong.
She only practiced recognition. Never did anything to test for recall.
Your dog runs to the kitchen at the sound of a can opener. Name the US, UR, CS, and CR.
US: Food
UR: Eating/happy/excited.
CS: Sound of can opener
CR: Eating/happy/excited.
Which theory says conciousness is information being broadcast widely enough that many systems can use it at once?
Receptors work in opposing pairs. When one is exhausted it's opposing pair will fire more. What theory?
Opponent process theory.
Someone describes a childhood birthday in vivid details, and the only record is a photograph that they have seen many times. Name what likely happened.
Source monitoring failure; false memory.
Explain what happened with the bobo doll study.
Children observed angry behavior so they therefore repeated the angry behavior.
The patient is awake and aware but can't move or speak. What is the condition?
Locked in syndrome
A patient draws a careful and accurate copy of a hammer but cannot tell you the name of it. What is the disorder?
Associative Agnosia.
Her testimony grows more confident but does not change the accuracy.
A child is afraid of dogs and avoids every dog she sees. Explain why avoidance makes the fear last longer.
The child is negatively reinforcing herself. She is removing fear by removing the dog, so she is reinforced to avoid the dog.
Why is consciousness harder to study than things like memory or perception?
It is private; understanding the brain does not explain why there is experience at all.