Chapter 5
The light-sensitive lining of the eye
A process by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events.
What is classical conditioning?
What is the triarchic theory of intelligence?
What is Sternberg’s theory of intelligence; three facets of intelligence: practical, creative, and analytical?
What is a storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes?
What is sensory memory?
What is cognition psychology?
What is a field of psychology dedicated to studying every aspect of how people think?
What is it called when a neurotransmitter relays a message to the central nervous system in the form of action potential.
What is transduction
What was the unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov's experiment?
What is the meat powder?
A mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
What is a schema?
A type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for.
What is functional fixedness?
Describe bottom-up processing.
What is a system in which perceptions are built from sensory input.
At what stage do infants form their first words?
What are malleus (or hammer), incus (or anvil), and stapes (or stirrup).
Name an example of a fixed ratio from the book.
What is piecework—factory worker getting paid for every x number of items manufactured?
Inter- and intrapersonal intelligence are often combined in to what single type? What psychologist brought it into the forefront?
What is emotional intelligence? Who is Daniel Goleman?
At what power is Gamma ray?
What is 10^(-12). 10 to the power of -12
Who discovered the law of effect and what is it?
Who is Edward Thorndike and what are behaviors that are followed by consequences that are satisfying to the organism are more likely to be repeated, and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated?
A psychologist developed an IQ test consisting of a combination of subtest used on WW1 veterans in the US. Name the original test and all credited tests.
What is the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V), and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence—IV (WPPSI-IV)?