Unit 1
This psychological approach states that human behavior is greatly impacted by unconscious thoughts and desires.
What is psychoanalysis (Psychodynamic Perspective)?
This psychoactive drug depresses the activity of the central nervous system, specifically the hippocampus and the cerebellum.
What is alcohol?
The influence of one sense on another, such as smell affecting taste, is called _________ __________.
What is sensory interaction?
In school, teachers often encourage appropriate behaviors through the use of good grades, positive remarks, preferential seating, or even class parties. These would all be known as __________ __________.
What is secondary reinforcers?
The fact that children who are spanked as punishment are more likely to be violent as adults shows the impact of this type of learning.
What is the observational learning?
When the results of an experiment are NOT due to chance (but were caused by the experiment itself), then we can say the results are __________ __________.
What is statistically significant?
This part of our brain deals with the comprehension of speech. Damage to it will allow you to speak but you will struggle with understanding.
The length of a sound wave, also known as the __________, determines the high or low tone, also known as the __________, that we experience.
What is frequency / pitch?
A student often misbehaves for his teacher. The teacher scolds him, but the student likes the attention and continues to misbehave. The student has been _________ _________.
These types of memories are automatically processed and they contain procedural memories of our habits and skills.
What are implicit memories?
Place the following schools of thought in the correct order, from earliest to latest:
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Humanism
Psychoanalysis
Structuralism
What is Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, and Humanism
This brain system is most often associated with the processing of emotions and is composed of the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and amygdala.
What is the limbic system?
What are bitter, sweet, sour, salty umami
Fill-in-the-blank for this classical conditioning model: A cancer patient feels sick after chemotherapy. After a few sessions, the patient begins feeling sick whenever entering the treatment room. The treatment room has become a ___________.
What is a Conditioned Stimulus?
Gavin needs to break a glass container to access a fire hydrant at his job. However, the only thing near him is a screwdriver. Gavin is stuck trying to find screws to unscrew, and doesn't realize he could just use the handle to break the glass. Name the problem Gavin is running into.
What is functional fixation?
Mrs. Becker's final exam has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which score is within 1 standard deviation of the mean?
A. 77
B. 89
C. 72
D. 90
What is A?
This part of our nervous system gets us prepared to handle stress. It kicks in "fight or flight" mode and causes symptoms such as dilated pupils, strengthened muscles, increased heart rate, lower body temp.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Jim lost his eye in the war and now has to wear an eye patch. This cue allows him to still make a judgement of how close or far an object is from him.
What is linear perspective?
The famous study that demonstrated that fear can be conditioned featured what psychologist and participant?
If identical twins are genetically identical, then what accounts for any differences between the two individuals?
What are environmental differences?
Craig is researching the impact of violent television shows on children’s behavior. To experiment, he observed how children played at a playground after watching various television shows. Craig noticed that after showing children violent cartoons, they displayed aggressive behavior on the playground over 50% of the time. In contrast, after showing children educational television like Sesame Street, they displayed aggressive behavior on the playground only 20%. The behavior of the children after watching the television shows represents the ________________ variable in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
What is neural transmission?
Place the following terms in the correct order for how we process visual information:
Bipolar cells
Ganglion cells
Occipital lobe
Optic nerve
Retina
Thalamus
What is retina, bipolar, ganglion, optic nerve, occipital lobe, thalamus?
This type of reinforcement is the most effective because it is less prone to extinction.
What is partial reinforcement?
Finn has moved often throughout her life. While she knows her dad’s current cell phone number, she has forgotten her old home phone number. This is due to _________ __________.