Unit 1
What is classical conditioning?
a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly excited.
Who was Charles Darwin?
Theory of evolution, evolutionary approach, way your born
Glial Cells are...
glue neurons in place, support and provide nutrients, and form the myelin
who was the key researcher of observational learning?
Albert Bandura
What is shallow processing?
little elaboration with a focus on superficial and/or perceptual elements
What were the two earliest approaches?
Structuralism, and Functionalism
Whats the endocrine system?
Purpose to allow communication
what are the three types of neurons?
Sensory, Motor, and Minor
what are the learning principles?
insight learning, emotional learning, superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness
what are the 9 types of encoding?
visual, acoustic, semantic, massed practice, spacing effect, testing effect, serial position effect, recency effect and primacy effect.
What is the evolutionary approach?
What does the hypothalamus release?
adrenaline.
what is repolarization?
Who was B. F. Skinner?
1904-1990, behaviors perspective explored ways to change behavior
difference between retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia?
anterograde- inability to form new memories
What areoperant conditionings strengths?
Behaviors can be measured. Scientific punishments are not measurable affect on behavior.
What is reciprocal determination?
Helps understand genetics are not destiny.
what are the binocular cues?
convergence, and retinal disparity
what coping method is associated with greater stress reduction to feel in control.
Problem solving coping
what was Noam Chomsky's belief?
humans will learn or develop language
what is the sociocultural approach?
Family, Religion, culture, society, neighborhood, "Microcultures"
What was the Jodie Case study
Epileptic seizures, she couldn't use left arm or leg, medicine didn't work, no control of left side of body, got a hemispherectomy, the surgery was flawless, removed entire right hemisphere of brain, and the brain changed shape and made new conections and everything was perfect from there out. BRAIN PLASTICITY
what are the grouping principles?
proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, and closure
internal locus coping?
direct our own fate with achievement and health
who was Lewis Terman?
worked at Stanford, stanford- Binet test, Proponent of eugenics