Nervous system/stress
The Central Nervous System (CNS)
_________ is a learning process whereby the consequences of behaviour determine the likelihood that it will be performed again the future
Operant Conditioning
This device detects, amplifies and records electrical activity of the brain in the form of brain waves
EEG
List one psychological contributing factor for phobias
Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, Cognitive biases
You are investigating how sleep impacts memory.
What is the independent variable?
sleep
Which subdivision of the nervous system initiates the fight/flight/freeze response?
Sympathetics NS
5-9 or 7 + or - 2
The main hormone that is involved in the initiation of sleep
melatonin
Explain the difference between a fear and a phobia
A phobia is persistent, irrational and either avoided or endured with marked distress
What type of data refers the information that is expressed numerically?
Name the main excitatory neurotransmitter
glutamate
List the 5 stages of observational learning
Attention, retention, reproduction, motivation, reinforcement
A sleep disorder where the major sleep episode is delayed in relation to the desired sleep time
Delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS)
Identify a biological intervention for specific phobia
Benzodiazepines or breathing retraining
This type of experimental design involves participants being randomly allocated to one of two groups.
Between subjects design
Identify all stages and substages of the GAS model
Alarm Reaction - shock and counter shock
Resistance
Exhaustion
Which brain area is responsible for the encoding of explicit, episodic long term memories
Hippocampus
How many hours of sleep is required for a newborn baby (1 to 16 days old)
16 hours
List 2 cultural determinants for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Cultural continuity
Self determination
A large sample means the results are more generalisable to the wider population. This increases the __________
External validity
Identify one difference between a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator
Neurotransmitter exerts its influence in to a single synapse whereas neuromodulator is multiple synapses
OR
Neurotransmitter exerts its influence more slowly compared to neuromodulator
Provide 1 similarity and 1 difference between method of loci and songlines
Difference - songlines involves physical location method of loci is mental
Name the part of the brain that is considered to be the master biological clock that regulates timing and activity of the sleep-wake cycle
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
Explain systematic desensitisation
Step 2 Create a fear hierarchy with least fear inducing to most fear inducing
Step 3 Graduated systematic pairing of relaxation technique with relaxation technique and not moving up until anxiety response is no longer present
______ refers to how close the results are to each other when an investigation is replicated under changed conditions
reproducibility