The study of behavior and mental processes in animals compared to the development of humans
What is Comparative Psychology?
100
Conditioning in which the conditioned stimulus is paired with and precedes the unconditioned stimulus until the conditioned stimulus alone is sufficient to elicit the response
What is Classical Conditioning?
100
This bird has the intelligence of a 5 year old child
What is a parrot?
100
Intensity level at which one can detect a stimulus 50% of the time
What is absolute threshold?
200
The person considered to be the founder of Comparative Psychology
Who is Pierre Flourins?
200
The disappearance of a behavior when the behavior is not reinforced
What is Extinction?
200
A chimpanzee taught sign language by Roger Fouts
Who is Washoe?
200
The feminine component of the unconscious male psyche and inner counterpart to the persona
What is anima?
300
Discovered the law of effect
Who is Edward Thorndike?
300
Gradually training an organism to perform a specific response by reinforcing behaviors similar to the desired response
What is Shaping?
300
This mammal likes to get high on puffer fish
What is a Dolphin?
300
According to Piaget, this is the stage when a child learns to use language, but does not comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
What is the preoperational stage?
400
Most known for his dependence and isolation experiments on monkeys
Who is Harry Harlow?
400
A state when an organism is repeatedly subject to aversive stimuli
What is Learned Helplessness
400
Recent studies show that this animal does not only see in black and white
What is a Dog?
400
The theory of methods, scope, validity, and limits of knowledge
What is Epistemology?
500
A comparative psychologist best known for the "Knower" experiments with chimpanzees
Who Emil Wolfgang Menzel Jr?
500
A response is reinforced only part of the time making the learned behavior slower to acquire
What is Partial Reinforcement?
500
This insect has passed the mirror test
What is an Ant?
500
One of the two types of declarative memory that stores general knowledge and concepts