Conditioning
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
The effect of most genes is ______, not deterministic.
A mental shortcut
What is a heuristic?
This type of study involves assigning people to conditions.
What is an experiment?
This region of the brain is involved in thinking, planning, and decision making.
What is the frontal lobe? (Prefrontal cortex also acceptable)
What is the conditioned stimulus?
This term describes the idea that the effect of many genes depends on the environment
Gene-environment interaction
Explaining a person's behavior as a reflection of their character or personality
What is a dispositional attribution?
This variable is manipulated in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
The long skinny part of a neuron.
What is an axon?
This type of conditioning involves learning to make an association between our behavior and a reward or punishement.
What is operant (or instrumental) conditioning?
The study of changes in gene expression.
What is epigenetics?
A mental shortcut that involves using a number (relevant or irrelevant) as a starting point for an estimate.
What is the anchoring heuristic?
When research participants change their answers to be more favorable or socially acceptable.
What is social desirability bias?
This collection of brain structures plays an important role in addiction.
What is the reward system?
This schedule of reinforcement is the most resistant to extinction.
What is a variable schedule?
What are heritability studies?
What is the availability heuristic?
You should always read this section of an empirical paper or journal article first.
What is the abstract?
This is the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
What is GABA?
This scientist argued that there was no such thing as free will, since all of our behavior could be explained through conditioning.
Who is Skinner?
McDermott et al (2009) measured aggression by asking participants how much they would pay to do this.
What is dishing out hot sauce?
This term refers to why many of you thought Sue was an actress, not a cashier.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
Doing a study to test the general hypothesis of another study, but without using the exact same procedures
What is a conceptual replication?
This is the name of your teachers dog.
What is Joey?