Misc.
Using the principles of shaping a university was able to teach this animal how to play basketball.
Rats.
This part of the neuron receives information from another neuron through the synaptic gap.
Dendrites.
Rods are for ______; Cones are for ______
Night vison; color
We are motivated by our inborn automated behaviors.
Instinct theory
This increases behavior and this decreases behavior.
Instrumental learning is associated with this guy.
Edward Thorndike
We learned that personality is associated with the frontal lobe when this guy got a rail spike though his skull, his personality was changed.
Phineas Gage
This is a common relay center for the senses.
Thalamus
This structure in our brain is like a thermostat for weight. It determines when we feel full and when we feel hungry.
Hypothalamus
This contraption demonstrates operant learning by giving a rat the food pellet after pressing the lever.
Skinner Box
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Gestalt principles
Chemicals that travel between the synaptic gap
Neurotransmitters
This gestalt principle fills in the gaps to complete things
closure
Doing something for pride is a ________ motivator. Doing something for a grade is a __________ motivator.
Intrinsic; Extrinsic
A punch card is an example of this type of reinforcement schedule.
Fixed ratio
In the 3rd wave of psychology, people believed that most of your feelings come from a hidden place in the mind called the unconscious. What was this wave called?
Psychoanalysis
Responsible for our basic emotions of fear and anger
Amygdala
The spinal cord can block pain from getting to the brain. If you bump your elbow on the wall and you rub it to make the pain "go away"
Gate-control theory
We are motivated by our biological needs. We want to maintain homeostasis. If we are not in homeostasis, we create a need to come back to it.
Drive reduction theory
The bobo doll experiment was used to demonstrate what part of observational learning?
Modeling
When is everything due for this term?
10/14 @ 11:59!
TONIGHT!!!!!
Responsible for heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure
Medulla oblongata
Pathway of light through the eye.
Cornea, anterior chamber, pupil, lens, vitreous body, retina, optic nerve.
We are confronted with a scary guy. Our heart starts to beat faster. We are scared because our heart beat has gotten faster. Which theory of emotion is this?
James-Lange theory of emotion
Gaining the sudden knowledge to solve a problem after the connects have been formed about relationships
Insight learning