Perspectives
The study of our inner feelings and behavior
Psychology
The 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex.
Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal.
Using information from our senses to figure out something new.
Bottom-up processing
A need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal.
Motivation
This guy stumbled into classical conditioning by accident while studying the digestion of dogs.
Ivan Pavlov
The father of psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
The structure that separates the 2 hemispheres of the brain.
The corpus callosum.
Transduction.
The response to a stressful event.
1. Alarm
2. Resistance
3. Exhaustion
General Adaption Syndrome
learning or development of a skill, habit or quality; how we know learning has happened.
The perspective that focuses on us being the best we can be for "self-actualization."
Humanistic Perspective
The idea that either the neuron fires or it does not
The all-or-none response
Adjusting to the feeling of braces.
Sensory adaptation.
The idea that we need to satisfy lower needs before we can move up to higher level needs.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Bart cut class. To stop this behavior from happening his mom Marge takes away his skateboard. This is an example of what (2 parts)
Negative Punishment
Cutting holes into a skull to let evil spirits out in the stone age.
Trephination.
Too much of this neurotransmitter is associated with _______ and too little is associated with __________.
Too much = Schizophrenia
Too little = Parkinson's
Going from hearing nothing to something.
Absolute threshold
To have the best performance you need to have a middle level of stress/anxiety.
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Rewarding small benchmarks in behavior along the way to the overall goal. Example: if I am trying to get a pigeon to spin in a circle, I might give a reward for a partial turn and another partial turn until that full turn happens.
Shaping
Psychology's 3 big debates.
Nature vs. Nurture
Stability vs. Change
Continuity vs. Discontinuity
This neuroimaging technique uses a small amount of a radioactive substance to track active paths in the active brain.
PET
Comparing images from the retina in two eyes, the brain can figure out the distance. The greater the differences between the images the closer the object.
Retinal disparity.
The physiological change and cognitive awareness must occur simultaneously.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Edward Toleman conducted an experiment on rats in a maze. He places a set of rats in the maze to wander for 10 days. After the 10 days the wandering rats were given an incentive to finish the maze. Toleman found that those rats that wandered the maze before finished the maze faster than the control group of rats. This experiment demonstrates...
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