Brain Function
This division of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system (CNS)?
This is the process of detecting physical stimuli through sensory receptors.
What is sensation?
This is the shortest stage of memory that holds information for milliseconds.
What is sensory memory?
This type of learning involves forming associations between stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
This is changing behaviour to match a group.
What is conformity?
This type of neuron carries sensory information from the body to the brain.
What is an afferent (sensory) neuron?
This term describes how we interpret and organise sensory information.
What is perception?
This memory model includes sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
What is the Multi-Store Model (MSM)?
This term describes learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
This type of social influence is based on wanting to be liked or accepted.
What is normative social influence?
This neurotransmitter is primarily inhibitory and helps regulate anxiety.
What is GABA?
This Gestalt principle refers to seeing objects that are close together as a group.
What is proximity?
This component of working memory processes visual and spatial information.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
In classical conditioning, this is the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.
What is a conditioned response?
This psychologist conducted the line judgment conformity experiments.
Who is Asch?
Damage to this brain area is associated with difficulty producing speech.
What is Broca’s area?
This illusion demonstrates how context can distort size perception using converging lines.
What is the Müller-Lyer illusion (accept Ponzo if direction matches)?
This type of long-term memory involves facts and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
This schedule of reinforcement provides rewards at unpredictable intervals.
What is a variable schedule (e.g., variable ratio/interval)?
This effect explains why people are less likely to help when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
This explains how neurotransmitters affect behaviour by either exciting or inhibiting postsynaptic neurons.
What is synaptic transmission (or excitatory vs inhibitory neurotransmission)?
This concept explains how expectations, experience, and culture influence perception.
What is perceptual set?
This explains forgetting due to competing information learned before or after.
What is interference (proactive or retroactive)?
This explains learning through observing others and modelling behaviour.
What is observational learning (Bandura)?
This process explains reduced helping due to shared responsibility.
What is diffusion of responsibility?