The Brain
The part of the brain responsible for emotions, especially fear
What is the Amygdala?
Research method in which you can infer causation
What is experimental design?
An automatic response created through training to an ordinarily neutral stimulus
What is the conditioned response (CR)?
The magic number
What is +/- 7pieces of information?
Scientific study of the mind, brain, and behaviour
What is psychology?
The thick band of neurons that connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres
What is corpus callosum?
Research method involving watching behaviour in real-world settings
What is naturalistic observation?
A stimulus is removed in order to increase the likelihood of a behaviour
What is negative reinforcement?
A lack of clarity about the origin of a memory
What is source monitoring confusion?
Theory in which the solution that is the simplest is often correct
What is Occam's Razor?
The part of the limbic system located in the centre of the brain, it acts as a relay from the lower part of the brain to the proper areas of the cortex
What is the thalamus?
Extent to which a measure assesses what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
The reappearance of the conditioned response after a rest period
What is spontaneous recovery?
Process of recalling information intentionally
What is explicit long-term memory?
Part of the nervous system active during rest and digestion
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
The measure of brain activity by detecting changes in blood oxygenation and blood flow in response to neural activity
What is fMRI?
Extent to which we can draw cause-and-effect inferences from a study
What is internal validity?
A boy conditioned to fear white rabbits does not show a fear response to white rats
What is stimulus discrimination?
Occurs when learning something new hampers earlier learning
What is retroactive interference?
Chemical substances that mimic or enhance the effects of a neurotransmitter on the receptor sites of the next cell
What are agonists?
Communicate closely with neurons, control blood flow in the brain, and play a vital role in the development of the embryo
What are astrocytes?
r = -.98
What is a significant negative correlation?
Slot machines are based on this schedule of reinforcement
What is variable ratio?
The tendency to remember stimuli that are distinctive or that stick out like sore thumbs from other stimuli
What is the von Restorff effect?
Major theoretical framework of psychology that was developed out of the belief that psychological science must be completely objective and derived from laws of learning
What is Behaviourism?