Taking away a child's phone when they misbehave would be an example of ?
Negative Punishment (Removing a stimulus to decrease a behavior)
What receptors are responsible for color vision?
Cones
This occurs when research subjects alter their behavior or answers to match perceived researcher expectations
Participant Bias
The mental, conscious retrieval of information or past (Answering an essay question)
Recall
B.F Skinner used this operant conditioning technique to train pigeons to perch a specific spot
Shaping (Rewarding small, incremental steps toward the final goal)
A car beeping until the seatbelt is fastened would be an example of what?
Negative Reinforcement(Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase a behavior)
This part of the brain is critical for processing emotions-especially fear- along with memory formation, decision making, and initiating the fight-or-flight response
Amygdala
This occurs when a sample is collected in a way that some members of the intended population have a lower or higher probability of selection than others
Sample Bias
This is the ability to identify previously encountered information, objects, or people when they are presented again
Recognition
Operant Conditioning is to "voluntary" as Classical Conditioning is to what?
Involuntary
Receiving a speeding ticket would be an example of what?
Positive Punishment (decreases the future frequency of a behavior by adding an unfavorable stimulus immediately following that action)
This part of the brain is essential for consolidating information from short-term to long-term memory, spatial navigation, and emotional regulation(critical role in learning)
Hippocampus
Getting one free meal after the purchase of 10 is an example of what schedule?
Fixed Ratio Schedule
The cognitive process of repeating or practicing information to retain it in short-term memory or transfer it into long-term memory
Rehearsal
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Getting a sticker for completed work would be an example of what?
Positive Reinforcement( Strengthens desired behaviors by immediately adding a motivating stimulus)
The visual cortex is located in which lobes of the brain?
Occipital
A non-experimental, observational research method that measures the statistical relationship between two or more variables without manipulating them
Correlational Study
Studying in short, spaced-out sessions is know as what ?
Distributive practice
The Gestalt principle "Proximity" states what?
Objects that are physically close to each other are grouped together
Who developed the idea of Operant Conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
This park of the brain is crucial for language comprehension and processing. If damaged it can cause fluent but incoherent speech (word salad)
Wernicke's Area
A research design where participants are unaware of which treatment they are receiving, while researchers remain fully informed
Single-Blind
This theory explains forgetting in long-term and short-term memory as a result of competition between similar memories
Interference theory
The tendency of a conditioned organism to produce the same response to new/similar stimuli as it did to the original conditioned stimulus is the definition of what term?
Stimulus Generalization