Introducing
Psychology
Psychology
Scientific study of behavior and mental processess
What is Psychology
A ____ is a nerve cell.
The sense receptors for taste are known as
these.
What are Taste Buds
Explicit memory, also called ____ memory,
can be clearly stated or explained.
What is declarative memory
During Pavlovs classic experiments, after conditioning, the bell was the ____, and salivation was the
____.
What is CS and CR
In this experimental terminology, during
the study, neither the subjects nor the
observers know who has received the
treatment.
What is a double blind study
A brain imaging using a computer to integrate
measurements of radiation passing through the brain at multiple angles. The final image is integrated into a 3D image of the brain (Meow).
What is a cat scan
The wide range of experience from being aware and alert to totally unaware and unresponsive is known
as this.
What is the continuum of conscious?
The process of changing information so that we can place it in memory is called this.
What is encoding
The school of psychology that influences the study of
learning by indicating that if individuals changes their thought patterns, they can learn a new behavior.
What is cognitive
There are four main goals of psychology, name two.
What is explain, control, predict, describe
The two divisions of this nervous system are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic
nervous system.
What is the autonomic nervous system
The use of contextual information or knowledge of a pattern in order to organize parts of the pattern.
What is top-down processing
The view that we may forget stored material
because other learning interferes with it is known as
this theory of forgetting.
What is the interference theory
When we learn by watching others it is referred to as this type of learning
What is observational learning
Name two steps in the scientific method.
What is review the literature,
form a hypothesis, design the study, collect
the data, draw conclusions, or report the findings?
Injury to this brain structure can result in a lack of motor coordination, such as stumbling and loss of
muscle tone.
What is the cerebellum
The process in which a sense organ changes or
transforms physical energy into electrical signals that become neural impulses that interpreted by your
brain.
What is transduction
Name the stages of memory in order.
What are sensory, short term, and long
term
In this type of conditioning, an organism learns to
respond because of the effects of the behavior.
What is operant conditioning
This perspective of psychology is concerned with the
issues of gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic
status.
What is sociocultural
When someone steps on your toe, this information is carried to the brain and spinal cord by this type of
neuron.
What is an afferent neuron
These can occur during REM sleep, are very
frightening and fill a person with anxiety by
producing images that occur during dreaming,
such as being attached, injured, or pursued?
What are nightmares?
A form of sensory memory that automatically holds
visual information for about a quarter of a second or more; as soon as you shift your attention, the information disappears.
What is iconic
Stimuli that increase the frequency of behavior are referred to as this.
What is reinforcement