Bio Psychology Labels
Studies
Nervous System
Learning
Random
100
What is the lobe that is BLUE?
Frontal Lobe
100
What is a correlational study?
A study that examines the relationship between two variables (items)
100
What part of the nervous system gets you amped up?
Sympathetic Nervous System
100
Around what age do babies gain the ability of depth perception?
Around 5 months
100
What is reliability?
When a test or study yields the same results repeatedly.
200
What is the lobe that is RED?
Occipital Lobe
200
What is a case study?
A study that examines a single individual/event.
200
What part of the nervous system calms you down after intense arousal?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
200
What is a secondary reinforcer?
A reinforcer that needs to be learned to enjoy or dislike (ie. money or grades on a report card)
200
What is the IQ equation?
IQ = (mental age/real age) x 100
300
What is the part labeled "1"?
Dendrites
300
What are the three main items needed for an experimental study?
1. Independent Variable
2. Dependent Variable
3. Control Group
300
What is an Action Potential?
The term for a Neuron firing.
300
A dog learned to salivate to the sound of the bell by constantly pairing the sound with food.
What is the bell when it makes the dog salivate?
The Conditioned Stimulus
300
What is the relationship between intelligence and creativity?
There is a modest relationship
400
What is the part labeled "5"?
Axon
400
What is the independent variable?
The part of the study you are looking to examine, and the part that you are changing within the study
400
What is the All-or-None Principal?
You need 100% of the energy needed to fire in order for an action potential to occur.
400
What is the phase called when the dog is learning to pair the two stimuli together?
Acquisition
400
What is the Flynn Effect?
The average IQ scores for a population is increasing over generations but due to societal factors and not evolution.
500
What are the little purple squares?
Neurotransmitters
500
You conduct a study that examines a new medication that is suppose to help with intelligence. You split 100 people up into 5 equal groups. One group gets 0 vitamins, another group gets 1 vitamin, the next gets two vitamins, and so on...they then take an exam to see how well they did and then compared the results.
What is the independent variable, dependent variable, and control group within this project?
independent variable - # of vitamins
dependent variable - exam scores
control group - group with 0 vitamins
500
What is the Threshold of Excitation?
The level of energy needed for a neuron to fire.
500
What is it when the trained behavior randomly comes back after a period of time with no responses?
Spontaneous Recovery
500
When you take away a kid's iPad for not being good, what is this?
A negative punishment