Unit 1
A medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of psychological problems and who can prescribe medication for clients.
What is a Psychiatrist
A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system
What is a Neuron?
What are the types of reinforcers?
What are Positive Reinforcers and Negative Reinforcers.
The school of psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behvior
What is Behaviorism?
The subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that regulates body functions, such as respiration and digestion
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
In operant conditioning, a procedure in which reinforcements guides behavior toward closer approximations of the desired goal.
What is Shaping
The theory that our understanding of the world occurs through ideas associated with similar sensory experiences and perceptions.
What is Associationism?
The nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
What is the Corpus Callosum?
A previously neutral stimulus that\, because of pairing with an unconditioned stimulus now causes a conditioned response
What is a Conditioned Stimulus?
The school of psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings
What is Structuralism?
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
Learning that is strengthened when behavior is followed by positive reinforcement
What is Operant Conditioning?
The school of psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts as determinants of human behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
A structure as the base of the brain stem that controls vital functions such as heartbeat and breathing
What is the Medulla?
A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit and unconditioned response when that neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a stimulus that normally causes and unconditioned response
What is Classical Conditioning?