What are the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear?
100
A strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as a feeling of well-being and reduction of stress.
What is psychological dependence?
100
In classical conditioning, organisms learn the association between two ________________.
What is stimuli
100
Memory occurs through these three processes.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
200
Sensory nerves which carry information to the brain and spinal cord.
What are afferent nerves?
200
Provides information about balance and movement.
What is the vestibular sense?
200
Three main categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens?
200
Occurs when we make a connection, or an association, between two events.
What is associative learning?
200
According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory, memory storage involves these three separate systems:
What are sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?
300
Nerve cells that integrate sensory input and motor output.
What are neural networks?
300
You are listening to a lecture. Then the bell rings in the hallway. In order to hear this stimulus, _________ neurons must carry electrochemical messages from your ears to your brain.
What is afferent?
300
An active stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
300
A neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.
What is classical conditioning?
400
If one gene of a pair is dominant and one is recessive, the dominant gene overrides the recessive gene.
What is dominant-recessive genes principle?
400
_______________ involves receiving stimulus energies from the external environment and _____________ gives meaning to sensation.
What are sensation and perception?
400
Sleep may have developed because animals needed to protect themselves at night. Sleep may be a way to conserve energy. Sleep is restorative. Sleep helps with brain plasticity.
What are theories for why we need sleep?
400
A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits a conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus.
What is the conditioned stimulus?
400
Asking an eyewitness to describe a describe a suspect's physical appearance to a sketch artist would be an example of a ________ task, whereas, asking an eyewitness to identify a suspect on the basis of a lineup of five possible assailants is an example of a ______________ task.
What is recall/recognition?
500
A person's observable characteristics.
What is phenotype?
500
The sense that monitors movement, posture, and orientation. This sense is located throughout the body in our muscles and joints and relays their messages to the brain.
What is the kinesthetic sense?
500
Higher-Level Awareness, Lower-Level Awareness, Altered States of Consciousness, Subconscious Awareness, No Awareness.
What is levels of awareness?
500
The frequency of a behavior increases because it is followed by the removal of something.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
The tendency to recall the items at the beginning and end of a list more readily than those in the middle.