Social Skills
Mrs. Keyes trips and falls on the sidewalk, spraining her ankle. What concept would say that the more people who are around her, the less likely it is someone will help?
Bystander Effect
Name three types of learning/conditioning.
Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, Social Learning, Modeling, Observational Learning, Latent Learning
Name two types visual receptor cells in the back of the retina, and tell me what each does.
Rods: black and white, dim light
Cones: color, bright light
What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?
Frontal, Temporal, Occipital, Parietal
What are we most likely to remember: a shopping list someone wrote down on paper, a TED talk about the Roman Empire, or where you got into a car accident?
Car accident
Who was the behavioral theorist who studied observational learning by showing kids a video of someone else beating up a Bobo doll?
Albert Bandura
In Operant conditioning, how does punishment differ from negative reinforcement?
Punishment: trying to decrease the behavior
Reinforcement: trying to increase behavior
Name three Gestalt Laws of perceptual organization.
Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Closure, Connectedness.
What is the frontal lobe's primary function?
List the order that a neural impulse takes through a neuron. Word bank: dendrite, axon, soma, terminal button, synapse
dendrite, soma, axon, terminal button, synapse
The presence of observers improves a person's performance on tasks that they are confident in. What concept is being described?
Social Facilitation
List the four types of reinforcement schedules in Operant Conditioning.
Fixed Interval, Fixed Ratio, Variable Interval, Variable Ratio, Continuous
Trichromatic Theory, Opponent-Process theory
Which brain area is most closely associated with emotion, anger, and recognizing faces?
The amygdala.
We remember the first and last items on a list best and tend to forget the middle due to and effect called...
the serial position effect.
For each of the following social psychologists, identify one major study they led:
Milgram:
Asch:
Zimbardo:
Milgram: Obedience study with "shocks"
Asch: Conformity study with lines
Zimbardo: Stanford prison experiment
Continuous/Fixed Ratio, Variable Ratio
Name four monocular depth cues in vision.
Relative brightness, relative motion, relative clarity, relative height, linear perspective, superposition, interposition, texture gradient, shadowing
Depression is frequently treated with an SSRI like Prozac. SSRI stands for...
Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitor
You are hiking in the mountains of Colorado when you turn the corner and see a mountain lion just a few yards away. What part of your nervous system is activated? What part of your brain is associated with this reaction? And what are three things that happen to your body?
Sympathetic nervous system (in autonomic system), hypothalamus, (list of physical symptoms)
Describe two concepts that explain the social roots of prejudice.
Social inequalities: "just world hypothesis"
Discrimination: cycle of anger/blame
In-group vs. out-group
Social Identity Theory
Watson taught a baby to fear something. What was the baby's name, and what was it afraid of?
Albert; white rat
The tug of the eyes muscles closest to the nose that we experience as we look at something very close to our face helps the brain determine the distance of the object. This is a binocular cue called:
convergence
Corpus Callosum/ stop seizures
What type of neurons make up the bulk of our brain matter?
Interneurons