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Who is the father of psychodynamics?
Sigmund Freud.
What is the oldest region of the brain?
Brainstem.
Who is the father of classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov.
What does the taste of bitter do, in terms of evolution?
Potential poisons.
What is Jean Piaget's first stage of development?
Sensorimotor stage.
Who was Little Albert?
He was classicaly condiontioned as a child to be scared of white rabbits.
What area is used for forming explicit memories?
Hippocampus.
What is generalization?
The tendency to group stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus together.
What is an absolute threshold?
The minimum stimuli needed to be detected half the time.
Name Kohlberg's moral developmental stages
Preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional.
Who were the fathers of humanistic psychology?
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
What is the basal ganglia responsible for?
Motor control/learning.
Fill in the words: (increase, decrease)
Rewards___behavior; Punishments___behavior
increase, decrease.
What is the colorful muscle in an eye that controls the size of the pupil?
The iris.
When does stranger anxiety develop?
After 8 months.
What did Hans Selye create?
General adaptation syndrome(GAS).
What brain area deals with hunger?
Hypothalamus.
What is the difference between retrograde and anterograde amnesia?
Retrograde means you can't remember the past but can form new memories. Anterograde means you can remember the past but can't make new memories.
What does the amplitude of a wave say about the color?
Its intensity, how bright or dull it is.
According to Erik Erikson, what stage does a 4-year-old go through?
Initative vs guilt.
Who dissected animals and called their brain fluid "animal spirits"?
Rene Descartes.
What does a decrease in gamma-aminobutyric acid(GABA) lead to?
Seizures or insomnia.
Define the 4 schedules of reinforcement and list them from strongest to weakest.
Fixed ratio - a certain number of responses; variable ratio - a random number of responses; fixed interval - a certain amount of time; variable interval - a random amount of time.
According to Weber's Law, what is the minimum percentage to be able to differentiate 2 sounds?
0.3%.
What is Maslow's 3rd need on the pyramid? Define it
Belonging and love; a need to love and be loved, to belong and be accepted, and avoid loneliness.