Unit 2
The process that allowed Carol to behave like a neurotypical child after she had part of her brain removed at the age of 2.
What is neuroplasticity?
The theory, developed by Young and Helmholtz which, explains the presence of afterimages.
What is the opponent process theory (or the Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic theory)?
The dislike of food after it was associated with making you sick.
What is taste aversion?
The manual used to help make clinical diagnoses of psychological disorders.
What is DSM-5?
The process by which your environment determines which of your genes are expressed.
What is epigenetics?
The cells that respond to the specific features of a stimulus (like lines).
What are feature detectors?
Sleeping when you’re tired and drinking water when you’re thirsty is an example of a _____ reinforcer.
What is a primary reinforcer?
The psychologist who conducted a study in which subjects were admitted into psychiatric hospitals for faking hearing voices.
Who is David Rosenhan?
The part of the brain that processes explicit memories (the memories that need to be consciously recalled).
What is the hippocampus?
The theory that psychologists Melzack and Wall came up with, regarding pain (and larger and smaller nerve fibres).
What is the gate-control theory?
When a conditioned stimulus that was no longer shown to produce a conditioned response appears again.
What is spontaneous recovery?
The behavioural therapy technique that uses hierarchies to overcome fearful stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
The three types of depressants
What are alcohol, barbiturates and opiates?
The method that allows humans to tell where a sound is coming from, based on the two ears on the side of a person’s head.
What is the localization of sound?
The type of reinforcement or punishment used to describe Lacy going to basketball practices to avoid being benched.
What is negative reinforcement?
The type of therapy used to treat severe depression through creating seizures to stimulate the nervous system.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
The gland that regulates the amount of calcium in the bloodstream
What are the parathyroid glands?
A person who can detect the difference between two very similar volumes has a very low ______.
What is the difference threshold?
The law that explains how cats had an increase in time when rewarded for escaping a puzzle box.
What is the law of effect?
The eating disorder associated with eating abnormally large amounts of food, exercising excessively, and taking diuretics/laxatives.
What is bulimia nervosa?