Functions of the Brain
Frontal lobe is responsible for ...
Planning
Abstract thinking
Judgment
movement
Social learning theory
People acquire behavior through watching and learning from role models
Extinction
complete stop of condition response after stimulus is not used over some time.
Culture shock
New country that has different ideals from you and feeling overwhelmed by the differences.
How to improve memory
Chunking
Rehearsal
Mnemonics
Wernicke's Area...
Language comprehension and expression
Self -serving bias.
Tendency to view ourselves more favorably than others in the same position.
Spontaneous recovery
Reappearance of conditioned response after a period of extinction.
Advantages of multiculturalism
Learn different cultures
Make connections
Higher tolerance towards minorities
Encourages integration and exchange of ideas
Theories on forgetting
Encoding failure
Retrieval failure
Hippocampus
Processes memories for long-term storage and emotion as it's within the limbic system
Bystander effect
The likely hood of bystanders helping in an emergency is influence by number of people around
Classical conditioning
Process of associating a stimulus with a learnt response.
Pluralism
two or more cultures co-exist each holding on to their own set of rules and values.
What parts of the brain involve memory
Hippocampus and cerebellum
Spinal reflex
Occurs without conscious thought to protect us from potentially painful events.
runs from brains ten to lower middle section response from sensations.
General Aggression model (GAM)
Suggests that exposure to violent video games increase likelihood of perceiving a situation as aggressive
Pavolv (1897/1902)
Conditioning a dog to salivate when bell rings by associating food with bell.
Passive learning
Reducing prejudice
Reconditioning - condition about misconceptions
Norms - teach and make people aware
Accountability - call people out for discrimination
short term memory
limited duration and capacity
Parkinson's Disease: cause, symptoms, treatment
Cause - loss of dopamine
Symptoms - tremors, incoordination, reduced facial expressions, slow movement.
Treatment - drug treatment increasing dopamine and physical therapy.
Biological theories of gender role formation
Gender roles are developed because of genetic make-up, reproductive system and other biological factors such as hormones
Little albert expt
Designed to find out whether fear can be a learnt response.
Watson paired a loud noise with a white rat to cause fear until he showed fear without the scary noise.
Cognitive dissonance
Attitudes don't match our behaviours
e.g. person smokes ( behaviour) but knows smoking is bad (beliefs: cognitive)
Explicit memory
consciously retrieving memory such as fact, knowledge or personal life events