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This is what happens when a drug acts like an agonist
What is mimic a particular neurotransmitter?
100
This gland releases epinephrine and norepinephrine in emergency situations
What is the adrenal gland?
100
This is the function of the cerebellum
What is coordinating voluntary movement and balance?
100
This is the seat of sexual motivation in the brain
What is the hypothalamus?
100
This is the seat of aggression and anger in the brain
What is the amygdala?
200
This is what happens when the Broca area of the brain is damaged
What is the ability to express thoughts in spoken language?
200
This is the effect of damage to the Wernicke area of the brain
What is the ability to understand what others are saying?
200
This is the ability of the brain to reorganize (especially in children)
What is brain plasticity?
200
This type of attention allows us to focus on one stimulus at a time
What is selective attention?
200
This is kinesthesis
What is our sense of position and movement of body parts?
300
This is the Gestalt principle that causes us to fill in missing parts
What is closure?
300
This is the principle that make it appear that parallel rows are converging in the distance
What is linear perspective?
300
This principle causes the retina to perceive certain shapes; for example, that a trapezoidal textbook is rectangular
What is shape constancy?
300
This "law" explains that sports players do their best with medium levels of arousal
What is Yerkes-Dodson law?
300
This is intrinsic motivation
What is a desire to perform better for its own sake?
400
This theory can be used to explain that a failing student will spend extra time being tutored
What is achievement motivation?
400
This is a disorder that causes someone to binge eat and then take a laxative
What is bulimia?
400
This is the problem with lie detector tests
What is showing that innocent people are guilty 37% of the time?
400
This is the gender difference in reading facial expressions
What is females are better at reading emotions through facial expressions?
400
This was the conditioned response in Pavlov's experiments
What is the dog salivating when hearing a bell?
500
This is the process of generalization in the Little Albert experiment
What is learning to fear a white rat and then anything resembling a white rat (like a rabbit)?
500
This is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement
What is adding vs removing a stimulus? (like getting money vs having your phone taken away)
500
This type of reinforcement causes a dog to continue to beg for food
What is partial reinforcement?
500
This is an example of observational learning theory
What is modeling correct behavior?
500
This experiment revealed that children will copy adult behavior
What is the Bandura doll study?