Beginnings
What does humanist mean in psychology
What is the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated accordingly
What does a neuron dendrite do?
What is receive information
What is the first step in cognitive processing of information from our environment
What is sensation
What is the process in which the strength of a CR decreases with repeated presentations of the CS alone called
What is extinction
Psychology is defined as the science of
What is behavior and mental processes
What type of memory stores large amounts of information for very short periods (+/- a few seconds)
What is sensory memory
There are ______________ neurons in a human brain
What is 100 billion
Double Jeopardy
What are aspects of our experience of which we are not conscious at any moment, but that can easily be brought to awareness?
What is Preconscious
Who is a Viennese physician whose ideas had a huge impact on clinical psychology and psychiatry
Who is Sigmund Freud
What is the neural impulse path of travel
What is dendrites to cell body to axon
What is the sensory threshold intensity that you can detect a stimulus _______% of the time
What is 50
What is the third step in three inter-related steps involved in memory
What is retrieval
What is the category of drugs that reduce awareness of external stimuli, slow bodily functioning, and decrease levels of overt behaviors
What is depressants
What involves simple repetition of information already in STM
What is rote rehearsal or maintenance rehearsal
Chemicals which excite or inhibit the
transmission of a neural impulse in the next neuron
What is neurotransmitters
What is iceberg
William James is credited with proposing the ideas that were incorporated into what type of approach?
What is Functionalism
What is the minimum level of stimulation required to fire a neuron
Double Jeopardy!!!
What is neural threshold
Double Jeopardy!!!
Wavelengths impact how we see color. A red light is different than blue because the wavelengths are ___________
What is longer
Watson and Rayner used what technique to have “Little
Albert” terrified of white furry items
What is classical conditioning
What is the network of glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream
What is endocrine system
Auditory sensory memory is also known as
What is echoic memory
Point of highest visual acuity operating best in daylight
What is Fovea
What is the name of the waves that are produced that are fast, small, irregular activity when you are awake and alert
What is Gamma and beta waves
What are the three major variables involved in an experiment?
1. independent variable
2. dependent variable
3. extraneous variables
The command to voluntarily lift your leg travels from spinal cord to leg muscles through the ___________ nervous system.
What is somatic
The part of the eye where light energy is converted into neural energy.
What is retina
What is the term that describes Learning that is hidden and not shown in behavior until it is reinforced
Latent learning
What is the process that learned information is encoded
What is moving information from our short-term, or working memory, into our long-term memory
What is a storage system where we store motor responses and chains of motor responses that we
have learned well
What is procedural memory
A simple, unlearned response of attending to a new or
unusual stimulus. For example, a tone elicits a response from a dog, but not salivation.
What is orienting reflex
What brain waves are characteristic of a mediative state?
What are alpha waves
Who is the individual who served as the one of the first pillars of evidence that the frontal lobe is involved in personality?
Who Phineas Gage
What part of the endocrine system directs control over the activity of many other glands in the system?
What is pituitary gland
The human ear responds to sound-wave frequencies
between
What are 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz
The role of the amygdala seems particularly important in what emotion
What is the emotion of fear
There are gender differences in two different types of memories what are they
What are episodic and autobiographical
What is a memory called that is so disturbing that it is pushed deep into the unconscious and is no longer
readily available for retrieval
What is repressed memory
What memory has a very large capacity exceeding the amount of information that you can attend to?
What is sensory memory
What is the name of a synthetically manufactured stimulants that usually come in the form of capsules or pills that leads to release of excessive dopamine and norepinephrine and inhibit reuptake?
What is Amphetamines