Unit 1
The study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
Below the lungs, releases insulin.
What is the Pancreas?
Pulses of electromagnetic energy are received through the cornea, then the pupil, and the lens.
What is Vision?
The process of acquiring new information.
What is Learning?
Learning that has persisted over time.
What is Memory?
The internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior.
What are Mental Processes?
Sends responses slowly through the bloodstream.
What is the Endocrine System?
The five types of taste.
What are salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami?
Learning that certain events occur together.
What is Associative Learning?
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly.
What is Short-Term Memory?
The idea that we innately born with our knowledge and/or mind.
What is Nature?
Enables voluntary muscle movement through motor neurons once commands are sent from the brain.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
The simultaneous perception of speed, distance, texture, and color.
What is Parallel Processing?
A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
What is Neutral Stimuli?
The psychologist who researched moral psychology and judgement.
Who is Jonathan Haidt?
Animals and children learned to anticipate and associate stimuli events.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Sensory nerves that connect to the CNS to relay messages to the brain.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The recognition of things from angles and colors.
What is Perceptual Constancy?
Developed when one is accidentally rewarded in sports, or other events, in which a neutral stimulus is incorrectly associated with a reward.
What are Superstitious Behaviors?
Worked on the theory of emotional intelligence.
Who is Daniel Goleman?
Finding the structural elements of the mind.
What is Structuralism?
Chemicals in drugs that can bind and activate the receptors in the synapses, thus providing the associated feeling.
What are Agonists?
The combination of activated receptors to recognize the smell.
What is the Olfactory Cortex?
Psychologist who did research on contingency , as well as the concept that the likelihood of an event occurring will determine how well or quickly classical conditioning works.
Who is Robert Rescorla?
Those who are born with high IQs.
What is Cognitively Gifted?