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BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
LEARNING
S & P
History and Methods
THE BRAIN
Cognition
Wildcard
100
WIRELIKE STRUCTURE ENDING IN THE TERMINAL BUTTONS THAT EXTENDS FROM THE NEURON CELL BODY
What is AXON?
100

IN BANDURA'S BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT, HE DISCOVERED THAT CHILDREN LEARN VIOLENCE FROM OTHERS. THE OTHERS WHO FIRST EXHIBITED THE VIOLENCE ARE CALLED THIS.

What are MODELS?

100
THIS IS THE BRAIN AREA THAT ATTACHES MEANING TO WORDS.
What is WERNICKE'S AREA?
100

Which psychological approach focuses on how the unconscious mind influences behavior?

What is the "psychodynamic approach"

100
PART OF THE BRAIN INVOLVED IN THE CONTROL OF OUR BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART RATE, AND BREATHING
What is THE MEDULLA?
100

The goal of this perspective is the uncovering of learning processes that explain all behaviors, especially observable behaviors.

What is behaviorism

100

The tendency, upon learning an outcome of an event—such as an experiment, a sporting event, a military decision, or a political election—to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen the outcome

What is Hindsight Bias

200

LACK OF THIS NEUROTRANSMITTER IS ASSOCIATED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE, AN OVER ABUNDANCE IS ASSOCIATED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. IT MAKES US FEEL GOOD WHEN ACTIVATED.

What is DOPAMINE?

200
THE PAIRING OF A CONDITIONED STIMULUS WITH AN UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE.
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
200
THIS IS THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF A STIMULUS NEEDED FOR IT TO BE DETECTED 50% OF THE TIME.
What is the ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD?
200

Who opened the first psychology lab and focused on the study of introspection?

Who is "Wilhelm Wundt"

200
PART OF THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS BODY TEMPERATURE, SEXUAL AROUSAL, HUNGER, THIRST, AND THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
What is THE HYPOTHALAMUS?
200

This is when information you have previously learned gets in the way of learning new information

What is proactive interference

200

The effect that showcases that distributed study or practice yields better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

What is the Spacing Effect

300
THIS CONSISTS OF ALL THE NERVES IN YOUR BODY OTHER THAN THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD.
What is THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM?
300
STATES THAT IF THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEHAVIOR ARE PLEASANT, THE STIMULUS-RESPONSE CONNECTION WILL BE STRENGTHENED AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE BEHAVIOR WILL INCREASE. DEVELOPED BY E.L. THORNDIKE.
What is THE LAW OF EFFECT
300

THIS IS WHERE TRANSDUCTION HAPPENS IN THE EYE.

What is the RETINA?

300

The use of chance procedures in psychology experiments to ensure that each participant has the same opportunity to be assigned to any given group

What is Random Assignment

300
THE PART OF THE BRAIN WHERE WE DO EVERYTHING YOU CONSIDER "THINKING"; THE PART OF THE BRAIN THAT DISTINGUISHES HUMANS FROM OTHER ANIMALS
What is THE CEREBRAL CORTEX?
300

This person developed a theory of intelligence with eight components.

Who is Gardner

300

Group in an experiment used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship by isolating the effect of an independent variable

Control Group

400
A BRAIN IMAGING TECHNIQUE WHICH DETAILS THE BRAIN STRUCTURE, INCLUDING INFORMATION ABOUT BLOOD FLOW IN THE BRAIN , TYING BRAIN STRUCTURE TO BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING COGNITIVE TASKS
What is FUNCTIONAL MRI (fMRI)?
400

Money is what kind of reinforcer?"

Secondary

400

THIS THEORY EXPLAINS WHY "WALKING IT OFF" ACTUALLY DOES MAKE A SPRAINED ANKLE FEEL BETTER.

What is GATE CONTROL THEORY

400

What is it called when you find a relationship between two or more variables in an experiment?

What is a correlation

400
THE SENSORY SWITCHBOARD OF THE BRAIN; THE FIRST STOP FOR ALL SENSORY INPUT EXCEPT SMELL
What is THE THALAMUS?
400

This is the magic number of short-term memory.

What is 7 plus or minus 2?

400

"Father of functionalism".

Who is WILLIAM JAMES?

500

This neurotransmitter is associated with mood and appetite.

What is serotonin

500
THIS PERSON STUDIED OPERANT CONDITIONING, DESIGNING "CHAMBERS" WHERE MICE COULD BE SHAPED TO DO DIFFERENT TASKS.
Who is B.F. SKINNER?
500
THESE ARE THE SENSORY RECEPTORS IN THE COCHLEA WHICH TURN VIBRATION INTO NEURAL SIGNALS.
What are HAIR CELLS?
500

The measure of variability that indicates how far each individual data point is from the average of the entire set

What is a standard deviation

500
THE PART OF THE BRAIN THAT COORDINATES SOME HABITUAL MUSCLE MOVEMENTS
What is THE CEREBELLUM?
500

The effect where one incorporates misleading information into one’s memory of an event.

Misinformation Effect

500

caffeine and nicotine are in the same class as which drug?

cocaine