That's what you think
Creative thinking
What is divergent thinking?
Conscious memories
What are explicit memories?
What are motor neurons?
Developed by Bandura, believes that we have cognitive influences and environmental influences on our behavior?
What is social learning theory?
Includes observational learning.
Area of the brain responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's Area?
Step by step thinking to solve a problem.
What is algorithm?
Breaking information into smaller pieces in order better remember it.
What is chunking?
Part of the PNS that controls voluntary bodily functions?
What is somatic?
Autonomic = is involuntary - Includes sympathetic and parasympathetic
Theory that we experience physiological arousal and emotion at the same time.
What is Cannon-Bard Theory?
Putting on gloves when your hands are cold would be this type of reinforcement.
What is negative reinforcement.
Removal of unpleasant stimulus to strengthen behavior.
Our best idea of a concept.
What is prototype?
Who was President during the Civil War? You just used this strategy for retrieval.
What is recall?
An antagonist would do this to a neuron receptor.
What is block?
Agonist = mimic
A need drives (motivates) us to fulfill that need in order to maintain homeostasis.
What is Drive Reduction Theory?
Part of the brain that assesses fear and threat, associated with memory
What is the amygdala?
Problem solving short cut based on our experiences.
What is availability heuristic?
Type of amnesia that no longer allows for creating new memories.
What is anterograde? Fifty first dates...
Retrograde is not remember the past...or retro things.
The major inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
What is Optimum Arousal Theory?
What is Yerkes-Dodson Theory?
The first stage of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) to stress.
What is alarm?
Followed by resistance and then exhaustion.
Tendency to only pay attention to facts that match our beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
When you cannot learn something new because old information is in the way.
What is proactive interference? (pro = forward)
Retroactive interference = can't remember the old(retro) because of new.
If this part of the brainstem was damaged someone would probably not live because it controls breathing.
What is medulla?
Children develop cogntively with scaffolding supports in their environment.
What Sociocultural theory?
Vygotsky
Perspective that believes behavior happens strictly because of the environment, John Watson studied this perspective.
What is Behaviorism?
What experiment did Watson complete?