Unit 1
A Group that does not receive the independent variable.
What is the Control Group?
A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
What is Action Potential?
Detection of signal 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
Every time you take a shower, someone in the house flushes the toilet causing the water to turn cold and you to become cold. Now every time you hear a toilet flush, you get cold. What is the US?
What is cold water?
When I am sad, I remember the time my dog died. When I am happy, I remember when I got my favorite toy on Christmas. What does this prove?
What is state dependent memory?
The first female president of the APA.
Who was Mary Calkins?
The central nervous system includes what two bodily structures?
What are the brain and Spinal cord?
Two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum proportion.
What is difference threshold?
Money is what kind of reinforcer?
what is Secondary?
Episodic memory is ____ and Semantic memory is ____.
What are events, facts?
The tendency to lie on surveys to look good.
Alzheimer's patients experience a deficiency in which neurotransmitter?
What is Acetylcholine?
Theory of color vision that states complimentary colors are processed in ganglion cells.
What is opponent process theory?
I was reading while my parents were watching the news in the background. A few weeks later, in a class discussion, I remembered what I heard and used it, even though I don't remember learning it. What is this called?
What is Latent learning?
I have a shopping list, but I forget it at home. I remember the first few on the list, and the last few on the list, but the cookies and bread, which were in the middle, I forget. Why?
What is the Serial positon effect, or primacy & recency effects?
We do __________ to ensure experiments can be replicated.
What is operational definition?
Maggie recently had a traumatic brain injury, and cannot understand language. Her speech is confusing an jumbled. Which area of the brain was most likely damaged?
What is the Broca's area?
Ganglion cells do what?
What is create the optic nerve?
Tommy loves to read but to encourage reading, his mom gives him $5 for every book he finishes. Tommy ends up not reading as much as he used to. What is this called?
What is the Overjustification effect?
Betsy hears a story from her mom and thinks its funny. A few weeks later, Betsy tells the same story to her mom again. Why?
What is Source Amnesia?
I want to follow a child with a rare, specific illness. Which research design should I use? What is the disadvantage of said research design?
What are Case study, there is no cause and effect?
A patient is experiencing severe seizures. What part of the brain should be treated, and how?
What is the Corpus Callosum and severing it?
What theory of color vision explains color blindness?
What is the trichromatic theory?
What is Learned helplessness?
Ted needs to wipe up a spill. There are no paper towels, so he grabs a piece of cloth. This shows he has overcome what?
What is Functional fixedness?