Perception
The ability to recognize distances and three dimensionality.
Depth perception
The lens and retina play a role in this sense.
Sight/vision
The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember.
Chunking
A wildly unethical experiment that proved that fear could be conditioned.
The Little Albert Experiment
In which state was basketball invented?
Massachusetts
Incorrect perceptions are called this.
Illusions
The olfactory nerve plays a role in this sense.
Smell
The chronological (meaning in order) retention of the events of your life
Episodic memory
A stimulus or event that follows a response and increases the chance that the response will continue.
Reinforcement
What is the oldest still-standing city in the United States?
St. Augustine, Florida
Once we have learned to perceive things a certain way, we tend to see them in the same way regardless of a changed condition.
Constancy
Macular degeneration impacts which sense?
Vision
The knowledge of language, including rules, words, and meanings
Semantic memory
A technique where the desired behavior is “molded” by first rewarding similar acts, then requiring closer approximations
Shaping
In Celtic folklore, this is a screaming woman and an omen for the death of a loved one.
A banshee
The tendency of the brain to see things in patterns and groups, and fill in the gaps to make sense of something.
Gestalt
The sense that is responsible for balance and is located in the canals of the ear.
Vestibular sense
Permanent storage of learned skills that doesn’t require you to recollect them
Procedural memory
When positive reinforcement only occurs intermittently, it is called this.
Partial reinforcement
Which animal species currently living on our planet has been around the longest at 450 million years?
The horseshoe crab
A form of perception that says you can distinguish between an object and its background.
Figure-ground perception
Which two senses are often called the "chemical senses"?
Taste and smell
Repeating information to yourself, but not attempting to create any meaning.
Maintenance rehearsal
A learning procedure where associations are made between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
Classical conditioning
Lesotho is a landlocked country in Africa that is entirely surrounded by this country.
South Africa