Cognition
Purposefully manipulate mental representations of information
What is thinking?
When a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and disappears
What is extinction?
Studies the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world
What is experimental psychology
Our spoke, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
What is language?
The inability to recognize familiar faces
What is prosopagnosia?
Thinking strategy that may lead to a solution but may sometimes lead to errors
What is heuristic?
Learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened depending on the consequences
What is operant conditioning?
Study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others
What is social psychology?
The area of the brain that controls language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
Protects the eye and refracts light
What is the cornea?
Thinking of an object only in the terms of its typical use
What is functional fixedness?
Process by which a stimulus increases the probability a behavior will be repeated
What is reinforcement?
Studies how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors
What is evolutionary psychology?
Meaningless speech like sound made by children
What is babbling?
A mental predisposition to perceive on thing and not another
What is perceptual set?
Requires the problem solver to rearrange or recombine elements in a way that will satisfy a certain criterion.
What are Arrangement problems
When a stimulus decreases the probability that a prior behavior will occur again.
What is Punishment?
Investigates the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and across various cultures and ethnic groups
What is cross-cultural psychology?
The area of the brain that controls language expression.
What is Broca's area?
Smallest intensity of a stimulus that must be present for it to be detected
What is absolute threshold?
Sudden awareness of the relationships among various elements that had previously appeared to be independent of one another
What is insight?
Neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after it is paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response
What is classical conditioning?
Unites the areas of neuroscience and clinical psychology
What is clinical neuropsychology?
The first deaf major league baseball player
Who is William "dummy" Hoy?
Perception guided by higher-level of knowledge and experience
What is top-down procession?