Unit 1
Who are the two fathers of behaviorism?
Who are John B. Watson & B.F. Skinner
What are the two main nervous systems?
Which one includes of all of the other nervous systems?
What is the peripheral nervous system
What is absolute threshold?
Provide an example
What is the smallest amount of energy required by a stimulus to be detected
Example: How loud someone would have to speak so you could hear them
What is it called when a behavior is no longer practiced?
What is extinction
What does cognition mean?
What is mental processes; learning, thinking, remembering, experiencing, perceiving
What perspective do humanist have on behavior?
What is that humans have the ability to reach their highest potential, viewing humans in a very positive light
What is the hypothalamus responsible for?
What is difference threshold?
Provide an example
What is the amount of change required to detect a change
Example: how many decibels music is turned down for someone to notice a the change
What is "generalization" in learning?
Provide an example.
What is reaction to similar stimulus to the conditioned stimulus
Example: Little Albert
What is psychiatry
What is the purpose of operational definitions?
What brain scan technology shows brain activity?
What is PET
Light waves enter through the eye and is processed in _____________ located in the ___________ lobe which is in the (front/back) of the brain?
What is the primary visual cortex, occipital, back
What is a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement?
Provide an example.
Example: Buy 10 get 1 free; score 3 goals get ice cream
What does evolutionary mean?
Does this apply to more nature of nurture?
What is developing from earlier forms; what is nature
What type of research method involves manipulation of variables?
What is experimental
What structures are in the hindbrain?
What is the pons, medulla, reticular formation, & cerebellum
What is the vision processing order?
What is the difference between negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement?
What is taking away something undesired, what is adding something desired; both are a good thing
What sleep stage does consolidation of memories occur?
What is NREM 2
What is the difference between longitudinal research design and cross-sectional research design?
Longitudinal - what is collection of data from population over time
Cross-sectional - what is collection of data from population at one time
A neuron is unable to send a receive messages, which parts of the neuron might be damaged?
What are the dendrites and the terminal buttons
What are all of the Gestalt principles that we covered in class?
What are closure, continuity, common region, similarity, proximity, focal point, symmetry, and figure ground
Classical conditioning is learning through ____________ while operant conditioning is learning through _________
What is association and consequences
What does correlation does not equal causation mean?