Basic
The study of the brain, mind, and behavior.
What is psychology?
Two main parts of the central nervous system
What is the brain and spinal cord?
Something perceived as threatening or demanding, thus inducing stress.
What is a stressor?
To engage in a particular behavior based on either desirable or undesirable outcomes.
What is conditioning?
Name the 5 senses.
What is sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell?
Group in an experiment that is not manipulated in order to compare results to the manipulated conditions.
What is the control group?
Area of the brain that is related to hearing.
What are the Temporal Lobes?
What is the typical male stress response?
What is Fight or Flight?
The inhibition of a conditioned association.
What is Extinction?
A physical response/feeling in your body
What is a sensation?
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
Part of the brain responsible for memory and perception of time.
What is the hippocampus?
Name one reason sleep is important.
What is helps learning, helps to heal...?
The idea that children learn and mimic adult behavior from observation.
What is modeling?
Name the 3 different types of memory.
What are sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
Part of the brain that controls involuntary body functions such as breathing, heart rate, and sleep.
What is the brain stem?
The main stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
Something is added to encourage a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
The interpretation of what you feel.
What is perception?
You should base a hypothesis from
What is a theory?
Part of the brain responsible for thinking and problem solving.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Some long-term consequences of chronic stress
What are weakened immune system, heart disease, anxiety....?
Something is removed in order to encourage a behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
To suppress (hide from conscious mind) a traumatic or unpleasant memory.
What is repression?