Sensation and Perception
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
What is Sensation?
An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
What is Habituation?
Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
What is Assimilation?
Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events
What is Attitude? (Accept Personality)
In 2015, this meme became popular, originating from a song that could be considered a sea shanty, and man oh man, do I want him to take me by the hand
Who is Ocean Man?
Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information
in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.
What is Acquisition?
In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development, from about 6 to 11 years of age, during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
What is Concrete Operational Stage?
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others
What is Social Facilitation?
In 2017, the trend of eating this brand's laundry detergent became popular
Failing to notice changes in the environment
What is Change Blindness?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal/human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
What is Learned Helplessness?
The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
What is Imprinting?
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
What is Social Loafing?
A round, red hedgehog, who had a very popular catchphrase in 2018
Who is Uganda Knuckles?
The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster
What is a Fovea?
An unknown number of actions (a reinforcement schedule)
What is a Variable-Ratio Schedule?
The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished
What is the Social Learning Theory? (Accept Observational Learning)
What is Ingroup Bias?
Another phrase that small children would use in 2018, specifically about an Italian dish
What is "Somebody Toucha My Spaghet?"
a binocular cue for perceiving depth; by comparing images from the retinas in the two eyes, the brain computes distance-the greater the disparity(distance) between two images, the closer the object
What is Retinal Disparity?
frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation and empathy
What are Mirror Neurons?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
What is the Bystander Effect?
Markiplier's "favorite letter" in 2018