Past & Present
The first "school of thought" in psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt.
What is structuralism?
Having completed an experiment, I can make this type of conclusion.
What is cause-and-effect, or causal?
Sometimes called the "tail" of the neuron, this structure sends the signal out toward the terminal buttons.
What is the axon?
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep causes the muscles in your body to do this.
What is not move, or be paralyzed?
He discovered that dogs would start salivating to the click of the food machine even before the food was delivered.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The "helping profession" that would treat a person with severe symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.
The name given to variables we cannot observe, and would need to operationally define.
What are constructs?
This "law" reflects the fact that neurons only fire at one intensity, or they don't fire at all.
What is the all-or-none law?
This theory of dreaming focuses on unconscious desires.
What is wish fulfillment (Freud)?
The contemporary perspective in psychology most strongly associated with "Learning".
What is behavioral?
The research area in psychology focused on how people relate to, and are influenced, by other people.
What is social psychology?
What is the independent variable?
Without this brain part, we would not be able to encode new long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The sleep stage experienced by a person showing slow-frequency and large-amplitude brain waves on an EEG.
What is Stage 3/4, or deep, or slow-wave sleep (SWS)?
Something that used to be neutral but now elicits a response
What is a conditioned stimulus?
This type of memory is providing the limits for your current cognitive load.
What is working memory?
A correlation coefficientof r = -.95 would tell me this about the relationship between two variables.
What is a strong negative correlation?
A study that shows identical twins have a stronger correlation on a given trait than fraternal twins would indicate that this factor is important for the trait.
What is genetics (or heredity)?
A person who continues to take a drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms (such as headache) is experiencing this.
What is physical dependence?
Negative reinforcement causes behavior to do this.
What is increase?
The acronym "SET" for success stands for these three evidence-based learning strategies.
What are spacing, elaboration, and testing?
This procedure is used in experimental research to control for extraneous (and potentially confounding) variables.
What is random assignment of conditions?
The name for what happens when a neuron "fires" is the action potential. THIS is the name for the state of the neuron's electrical activity when it is not firing.
What is the resting potential?
This neural process is inhibited (blocked) by stimulant drugs such as amphetamines or cocaine.
What is reuptake?
The process of reinforcing closer and closer approximations to the desired behavior.
What is shaping?