Studies and Experiments
What was the little albert experiment? Which type of conditioning did it involve?
Classical conditioning
What is NARCOLEPSY?
Involves an irresistible urge to fall asleep during waking hours
“Whole”
Based on the idea that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception. What perspective is this?
Gestalt
The nervous system is divided into these two parts.
The nervous system is divided into two major parts:
(a)the Central Nervous System and
(b)the Peripheral Nervous System.
DRUG CATEGORIES_.
Stimulants
Depressants
Hallucinogens
Opiods
Who was Phineas Gage and why was his case study so important?
Flexible Response
Define SIDs and list contributing factors.
Contributing factors:
-Premature birth.
-Smoking within the home.
Hyperthermia
focused on observable behavior and ways to bring that behavior under control.
Behaviorism
What Is a PET Scan?
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use a special dye that contains radioactive tracers to identify how well your organs and other tissue inside your body are functioning.
What is the IRB?
Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Committee of administrators, scientists, and community members that reviews proposals for research involving human participants.
What type of study was conducted to review Genie and what did it teach us?
Flexible Response
Define Parasomnia and provide examples
involve unwanted motor behavior/experiences throughout the sleep cycle:
Sleep Waling
Restless Leg Syndrome
Believed that one way the unconscious mind could be accessed was through dream analysis.
Who was the founding father?
Psychoanalytic
This system is involved in mediating emotional response and memory.
The Limbic system is involved in mediating emotional response and memory.
What is the IACUC?
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) - committee of administrators, scientists, veterinarians, and community members that reviews proposals for research involving non-human animals.
The only way to establish that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables is to conduct a ______________. List as many steps necessary needed for this method.
Experiment.
Define
•Manifest content
•Latent content
•Manifest content – the actual content of the dream.
•Latent content – the hidden meaning of the dream.
focused on understanding the structure and characteristics of the mind through introspection.
Who was the Founding Father?
WILHELM WUNDT (structuralism)
Which part of Phineas Gages brain was impacted? What is this region responsible for?
The Frontal Lobe.
Define Sensation.
Answers Vary
A Study in which conditioned reflexes in which an animal produced a reflex (unconscious) response to a stimulus (salivating in the presence of food) and, over time, was conditioned to produce the response to a different stimulus is an example of what?
Classical conditioning
What are the two types of sleep apneas and what occurs during each?
Obstructive – airway becomes blocked and air is prevented from entering the lungs.
Central – CNS fails to initiate breaths.
Proposed a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior.
Who was this founding father and what was this theory?
Maslow, Hierarchy of needs (Humanism)
A series of glands that produce hormones to regulate normal body functions.
What region of the brain does it work with?
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
The Hypothalamus
How does sensation relate to perception?
answers vary