Nervous System
The long, thin bundle of nerve fibres that extends from the base of the brain to the lower back
What is the spinal cord?
The primary stress hormone
What is cortisol?
The stimulus which must be present for the relevant behaviour to occur.
What is the antecedent?
The brief sensory memory for incoming auditory information
What is echoic memory?
Variable which measures the effects of the IV
A chemical substance produced by a neuron that carries a message to other neurons
What is a neurotransmitter?
Stress that continues for a prolonged period of time.
What is chronic stress?
What is classical conditioning?
The part of the brain best known for its role in processing and regulating emotional reactions.
What is the amygdala?
Collection of data by carefully watching and recording behaviour as it occurs without any intervention or manipulation
What is an observational study?
The neurotransmitter that enhances information transmission by making postsynaptic neurons more likely to fire
What is glutamate?
Strategies that evade a stressor and deal indirectly with it and its effects.
What is avoidant coping strategies?
Depending on their physical capabilities, learner converts the mental representation into action
What is reproduction?
The absence of visual imagery.
What is aphantasia?
Ensures that at the end of the experiment, the participant leaves understanding the experiment.
What is debriefing?
Dopamine and serotonin are examples of these
What is a neuromodulator?
Alarm reaction
What is the first stage of the GAS?
The stimulus that strengthens or increases the frequency or likelihood of a desired response by providing a satisfying consequence
Pronounceable words formed from the first letters of a group of words
What is an acronym?
The personal characteristics that individual participants bring to an experiment and which could influence their responses
What is participant variables?
The long-lasting enhancement of synaptic transmission due to repeated strong stimulation
What is long-term potentiation?
The stage we evaluate, or ‘judge’, the significance of the event and whether anything is at stake in this encounter.
What is the primary appraisal?
Observational learning that involves watching models
What is vicarious learning?
Procedural memory and classically conditioned memory are examples of this type of memory
What is implicit memory?
Group which is not exposed to the IV under investigation.
What is the control group?