Biology and Behavior
The space between the terminal button of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron; carries electrical messages
What is a synapse?
This type of research focuses on one individual, typically in a unique psychological situation
What is a case study?
A decrease or cessation in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the conditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
This theory hold that behavior is driven by survival instincts
What is Instinct Theory of Motivation?
A hypothesis that says that facial expressions are capable of influencing emotions
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
An electrical signal that acts upon an all-or-nothing principle
What is an action potential?
Compares multiple segments of a population at a single time
What is cross-sectional research?
Memory aids that help us organize information for encoding
What are mnemonics?
These theories in motivation all hold that an optimal level of arousal must exist for motivation to occur
What is Arousal Theory?
This brain structure has been a primary target for research concerning the biological basis for emotins, especially fear and anxiety
What is the amygdala?
When excess neurotransmitters drift away, are broken down, or reabsorbed
What is reuptake?
A reduction in the number of research participants over time
What is attrition?
When something is removed to increase the likelihood of a behavior
What is negative reinforcement?
This theory of motivation says that we rectify deviations from physiological needs to return to homeostasis
What is Drive Theory?
A subfield of psychology devoted to understanding the importance of psychological influences on health, illness and how people respond when ill
What is Health Psychology?
A drug that mimics or strengthens the effects of a neurotransmitter
What is an agonist?
The research method used to study relationships between variables
What is correlation?
Learning not to respond to a stimulus over time. We watched a video with an infant and a spice jar about it.
What is habituation?
The optimal arousal level depends on the complexity and difficulty of the task to be perfromed and the task performance is best within a middle range between boredom and anxiety
What is the Yerkes and Dodson law?
A process when an individual percieves and responds to events as overwhelming or threatening to his well-being
What is stress?
Chemical messengers in the nervous system
What are neurotransmitters?
People's expectations or beliefs affecting experimental outcomest that can lead to false positive results, sometimes in the form of a pill.
What is placebo effect?
The act of getting information out of memory storage and into conscious awareness
What is retrieval?
This fellow came up with a Heirarchy of Need triangular paradigm with basic needs towards the bottom
Who was Abraham Maslow?
A set of physiological reactions that occur when an individual encounters a percieved threat produced by an activation of the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system
What is flight or fight response? Sometimes with freeze or fawn (thanks to Gryffin)