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The Brain
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Behaviorism
Thinkin'
100

A type of research that studies a unique phenomenon presented by a single individual.

What is a case study?

100
A highly specialized cell that carries electro-chemical signals throughout the nervous system.

What is a neuron?

100

The process by which sensory organs collect information and transmit it to the brain

What is sensation?

100

Any observed and measurable reaction of a living organism to a stimulus.

What is a behavior?

100

A general term that describes how we acquire new behaviors and information.

What is learning?

200

This is the measure of whether or not an experiment sets out to measure what it is supposed to measure.

What is validity?

200

This part of the brain sits just above the spinal cord, and is responsible for our breathing, pulse and heartbeat.

What is the hindbrain?

200
This is created by the brain measuring the distance between your two eyes, and the object, allowing you to understand your distance from it.

What is depth perception?

200

This is a process of creating an association between a conditioned and unconditioned stimulus through repeated exposure.  

What is classical conditioning?

200
This part of the brain is most associated with thinking, including logic, executive function and imaginative thought.

What is the frontal lobe?

300
In an experiment, this group does is not exposed to the independent variable in order to account for the placebo effect.

What is the control group?

300

A thick bundle of nerve tissue that connects the two hemispheres of the forebrain.

What is the corpus callosum?

300

This involves the brain using high-level short-cuts to quickly interpret familiar sensory information.  It can be tricked.

What is top-down processing?

300

This can take the form of a punishment or reward, as long as it influences someone's behavior in a certain direction.

What is a reinforcer?

300
When encountering something new, the brain uses this type of sensory thinking, which involves attempting to compare what you are seeing to familiar objects in order to make sense of what you are experiencing.

What is bottom-up processing?

400
Something that a researcher cannot plan or control for that can nevertheless affect the results of a study.

What is a confounding variable?

400

This part of the forebrain is vital in regulating emotion, memory function, and body regulation.

What is the Limbic System?

400

This part of the back of the eyeball contains the specialized rods and cones that distinguish light and color.

What is the retina?

400

This is the process of withholding a desired reward until a behavior is performed in a more specific way.

What is shaping?

400

Making episodic memory requires this- conscious active thinking necessary to make new memories.

What is effortful processing?

500

In a hypothesis, this a specifically explained way in which the independent and dependent variables are measured.

What is an operational definition?

500

A system that includes the midbrain, forebrain, central and motor nervous system that is responsible for the fight-or-flight response.

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

500
These are evolved systems of perception that allow us to quickly identify certain patterns, especially faces.

What are feature detectors?

500

Exposing someone to a stimulus in a way that unconsciously influences their thoughts.

What is priming?

500

No matter how hard you think, if this part of your brain is seriously damaged, you will be unable to make new memories.

What is the hippocampus?