LOBES OF THE BRAIN
Part of the brain responsible for vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The various psychological and physiological factors that cause us to act a certain way.
What is Motivation?
A stimulus that activates a sense organ.
What is a Sensation?
The intended effect is to repeat a behavior.
What is Reinforcement?
What an Unconditioned Stimulus triggers.
What is an Unconditioned Response?
Part of the brain responsible for planning, reasoning, logic, etc.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Basic motivations that lead you to survive and meet your need to stay safe or to obtain food, water, or shelter.
What are Instinctive Motivations?
The organization of sensory information to meaningful experiences.
What is Perception?
John is trying to teach his dog, Arlo, to sit. Whenever Arlo listens to John and sits, John rewards Arlo with a dog treat.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
Ivan Pavlov discovered Classical Conditioning when studying this.
What is Digestion?
Part of the brain responsible for memory, language, emotion, etc.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
_____ do not explain behavior; they simply label behavior.
What are Instincts?
The weakest amount of a stimulus required to produce a sensation.
What is the Absolute Threshhold?
Whenever Bob bites his younger brother, his mother takes away his phone for a week.
What is Negative Punishment?
The ability to distinguish between similar stimuli.
What is Discrimination?
Part of the brain responsible for touch/feeling.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
The object we seek or the result we are trying to achieve through our motivated behavior.
What is Incentive?
The minimum amount of difference a person can detect between two stimuli.
What is the Difference Threshhold?
A reinforcer in which the value is learned.
What is a Secondary Reinforcer?
Taste Aversion is an example of this.
What is Generalization?
Part of the brain responsible for the basic functions of a human being.
What is the Hind Brain?
Refers to engaging in activities that are personally rewarding or because engaging in them fulfills our beliefs or expectations.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Stimuli are body movement and position; receptors are nerve fibers in muscles, tendons, joints, etc.
What is Kinesthesis?
Using the steps of already learned responses to teach a new behavior.
What is Shaping?
The unconditioned stimulus of the Little Albert Experiment.
What is the Loud Noise?