Ch. 2 Functions of the Brain and Mental Process (System)
Ch. 4 Sensation and Perception
Ch. 5 Sleep
Ch. 6 Learning
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The process of objectively evaluating, comparing, synthesizing and analyzing information.
What is Critical Thinking?
100
Name the four lobes of the brain.
What is occipital, temporal, frontal, and parietal?
100
These are the three processes of perception.
What is Selection, Organization, and Interpretation?
100
The stage of sleep with high-frequency brain waves, dreaming, 4th stage of sleep.
What is REM Sleep?
100
A relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes caused by experience.
What is Learning?
200
The three major major research methods.
What is Descriptive, Correctional, and Experimental?
200
In the selection of the hindbrain that controls voluntary muscle movement, balance, and some perception and cognition.
What is Cerebellum?
200
The minimum amount of stimulation necessary to consciously detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
200
Constant difficult falling asleep and staying awake.
What is Insomnia?
200
The diminishing of a conditioned response, when the original source of the learning is withheld or removed.
What is Extinction?
300
Focuses on fundamental principles and theories; most often conducted in universities and research laboratories
What is Basic Research?
300
Part of the nervous system responsible for the brain and spinal cord.
What is Central Nervous System?
300
The sense, located in muscles, joints, and tendons, that detects bodily posture, orientation, and movement of body parts relative to each other.
What is Kinesthesis?
300
Theory of sleep that helps us recover from daily activity.
What is Repair/Resporation?
300
The adding of a stimulus, thereby strengthening a response and making it more likely to reoccur.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
400
An experiment where only the researcher knows the control and experimental group.
What is Single Blind Study?
400
This system controls the body's responses to a perceived threat and is responsible for the "fight or flight" response.
What is Parasympathetic System?
400
The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information into meaningful objects and events
What is Perception?
400
A class of drugs that decrease bodily processes and overall responsiveness
What is Depressants?
400
A stimulus that, before conditioning, does not naturally bring about the response of interest.
What is Neutral Stimulus?
500
These are the seven major perspectives of modern psychology.
What is Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Humanistic, Cognitive, Biological, Evolutionary, and Sociocultural?
500
This covers the axon of some neurons to insulate and help speed neural impulses
What is Myelin Sheath?
500
The difference between bottom-up processing and top-down processing.
What is Bottom up: Data-driven processing that moves from the parts to the whole?
What is Top-down: Conceptual processing that moves from the whole to the parts?
500
Freud believed that dreams were the "royal road to the _______.
What is Unconscious?
500
The difference between Classical and Operant Conditioning.
Classical Conditioning- What is a type of learning that develops through paired associations; a previously neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response?
Operant Conditioning- What is learning through voluntary behavior and its sequent consequences, reinforcement increases behavioral tendencies, whereas punishment decreases them?