THEORIES
Either a neuron fires completely or not at all
All-or-none principle
Coordinates regular and habitual muscle movement
Cerebellum
Baby animals attaching to humans or inanimate objects
Imprinting
Discovering area in frontal lobe responsible for controlling muscles used to speak
Paul Broca
Copying the behaviour observed
Modelling
The desire to reach goals set for one’s self
Achievement Motivation
Provides a 3D picture of the brain structure using X-ray cameras
CAT Scan
“Chunking” lists or groups
George Miller’s "The Magical Number Seven"
Children demonstrating their comfort and dependence on parents
Mary Ainsworth "Attachment Style"
One’s ability to understand and manage their own emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Lawrence Kohlberg’s stage theory involving ethical reasoning
Moral Development
Knowing the shape of an object regardless of the different angles shown
Shape Constancy
A contraption used to feed rats via pressing a lever
Skinner Box
Children’s ability to learn language quickly
Noam Chomsky’s Language Acquisition Device
Only seeing *one* way an object can be used
Functional Fixedness
Using knowledge built on over time
Crystallized Intelligence
Location of your taste buds
Papillae
Severing patient’s corpus callosum to treat their epilepsy
Roger Sperry & Michael Gazzaniga Split-brain patients
He believed that intelligence comprised of analytical, creative and practical skills
Robert Sternberg
Where the second dose causes the same or greater effects
Reverse Tolerance
Switching your attention to a message that’s more important than the current one being encoded
Cocktail Party Effect
Space where optic nerves cross each other
Optic Chiasm
Eleanor Gibson testing a baby’s ability to perceive depth
Visual Cliff
Discovered that there are specific stimuli certain neurons in visual cortex respond to
David Hubel & Torsten Wiesel
When one is born with only one X chromosome in the 23rd pair
Turner's Syndrome