Beginnings
Biology of Behavior
Sensation and Perception
Learning
This and That
Odd and Ends
Memory plus
What is going on?
100
What does humanist mean in psychology
What is the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated accordingly
100
What does a neuron's dendrite do?
What is receives information and processes information from the nervous system
100
What is the first step in cognitive processing of information from our environment
What is sensation
100
What is the process in which the strength of a CR decreases with repeated presentations of the CS alone called
What is extinction
100
Psychology is defined as the science of
What is behavior and mental processes
100
There are ______________ neurons in a human brain Double Jeopardy
What is 100 billion
100
What are the three types of working memory
What is sensory, short term, long term
100
A man woke up to a strange left arm reaching for his face he was terrified, noticed his watch on the strange arm that he assumed was stolen, there was a struggle, and he realized that his left arm felt contorted. He realized it was his arm. What is going on with this man?
What is unilateral neglect
200
Who is a Viennese physician whose ideas had a huge impact on clinical psychology and psychiatry
Who is Sigmund Freud
200
What is the neural impulse path of travel
What is dendrites to cell body down the axon to axon terminal over the synaptic gap to the next dendrite
200
What is the sensory threshold intensity that you can detect a stimulus _______% of the time
What is 50
200
What is the third step in three inter-related steps involved in memory
What is retrieval
200
What is the nervous system that is known as the "rest and digest" system, it promotes relaxation and conserves energy by slowing the heart rate, enhancing digestion, and facilitating recovery after stress
What is Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS)
200
The division of nervous system consisting of the brain and the spinal cord?
What is central nervous system
200
What are the three processes of memory
What is encoding, storage, retrieval
200
An individual is asked to copy the image and the right side is what they copied. What is happening?
What is visual neglect
300
William James is credited with proposing the ideas that were incorporated into what type of approach?
What is Functionalism
300
What is the minimum level of stimulation required to fire a neuron
Double Jeopardy!!!
What is neural threshold
300
Wavelengths impact how we see color. A red light is different than blue because the wavelengths are ___________
What is longer
300
Watson and Rayner used what technique to have “Little
Albert” terrified of white furry items
What is classical conditioning
300
What is the network of glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream
What is endocrine system
300
Point of highest visual acuity operating best in daylight
What is Fovea
300
What type of memory holds information in our consciousness, or awareness, ever so briefly while we “work with it”
What is short term memory
300
What is the descriptor name of a disease that involves progressive degeneration or death of neurons over time such as Huntington’s disease or ALS
What is Neurodegenerative Disorders
400
What are the two things that must be present to have a theory?
It must describe a behavior and it must make predictions about future behaviors.
400
The command to voluntarily lift your leg travels from spinal cord to leg muscles through the ___________ nervous system.
What is somatic
400
The part of the eye where light energy is converted into neural energy.
What is retina
400
What is the term that describes Learning that is hidden and not shown in behavior until it is reinforced
Latent learning
400
Someone who does not remember abuse in early childhood
Repression
400
A simple, unlearned response of attending to a new or
unusual stimulus. For example, a tone elicits a response from a dog, but not salivation.
What is orienting reflex
400
The process of practicing or rehearsing material over and above what is needed to learn it
What is overlearning
400
When considering Parkinson’s disease, what is the neurotransmitter that is impacted? (hint ...impacts mobility?
What is dopamine
500
Who is the individual who served as the one of the first pillars of evidence that the frontal lobe is involved in personality?
Who Phineas Gage
500
What part of the endocrine system directs control over the activity of many other glands in the system?
What is pituitary gland
500
The human ear responds to sound-wave frequencies
between
What are 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz
500
The role of the amygdala holds __________
What emotions
500
Albert Bandur first developed a theory known as ___________________. In his observations he used an experiment with bobo dolls.
What is social learning theory
500
◦What is the name of a neurotransmitter that stimulates the next neuron in the sequence
What is excitatory
500
A storage system to store motor responses and chains of motor responses that we have learned well (e.g., riding a bike, driving a car, swimming, playing a sport, climbing stairs)
What is procedural memory
500
What is the name of the disorder when individual has a TBI or a stroke and end up speaking in broken or short fragmented sentences leaving out small linking words like and, but, to ...
What is Broca's Aphasia