Whatever I like
Jenni was startled by the sudden loud barking noise made by a large black dog. Every time she saw a large black dog after that, she felt anxious and jumpy. She also began to feel the same way when she saw any brown, medium sized dogs. This change in her conditioned response is known as _____
generalization
The tiny gap between an axon's terminals and the dendrites or soma of another neuron is called the _____
synaptic gap aka the synaptic cleft
Something that naturally produces a response
What is unconditioned stimulus?
Study participants who closely match the characteristics of the larger population
representative sample
Diana wants to find a therapist who will help her explore her unconscious motivations and how her early childhood experiences are affecting her now. She should look for a therapist with a _____ perspective.
psycho-analytic
The _____, often referred to as the master gland because it activates other glands, is located _____
pituitary gland; near the hypothalamus.
You just took a tumble and your arm really hurts. You are wishing your brain would release a lot of _____ to help relieve the pain.
endorphins
The increase in responding to the conditioned stimulus after a pause that follows extinction
Spontaneous Recovery
The effects caused by participant expectations rather than the independent variable
placebo effect
A field of psychology that studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgment
cognitive psychology
According to the model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin, the _____ is a memory system that can hold about seven items for about 30 seconds.
short term memory
A theory that likens human memory to a computer that uses mental processes or programs to process information
Information-Processing Theory
The strengthening of a behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus after the behavior
Negative Reinforcement
A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated is called _____
a case study
An action potential involves a change in a neuron's internal state in what?
an impulse travels from the dendrites down the axon
When memories are not revisited, they simply fade away as time passes. This exemplifies the _____
decay theory of forgetting
This is primarily responsible for regulating our perceptions of, and reactions to, aggression and fear.
amygdala
Learning is
A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge resulting from experience
A measure of how strongly variables are related to one another
correlation
Whats Professors real name?
Professor Dorsett
Who would most likely say this...
"Unconscious forces may contain conflicts that can be a detriment to psychological health and development."
Sigmund Freud
After experiencing a stroke, Lucille has difficulty speaking. Which part of Lucille's brain may have been damaged by the stroke?
Broca's area
In Classical Conditioning, the reduction in responding that occurs when the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus is called
extinction
If we were to design an experiment to test the hypothesis that aspirin takes headaches away, the independent variable would be _____ and the dependent variable would be _____
aspirin; headaches.
A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the general ideas but can't recall the detailed information needed to complete the assembly process. Which theory of forgetting best explains this situation
Encoding failure