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- medulla
- the part of the hindbrain that helps control such vital functions
- retrograde amnesia
- ability to remember visual stimuli over long period of time
- peripheral nervous system
- what's main function transmit information from the central nervous system to other parts of the body
- mnemonic device
- acronyms, phrases, or jingles
- generalization
- act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seem similar
- state dependent
- memories that are recalled better when the mood in which they were orginallt encoded is recreated
- anterograde amnesia
- memory loss from trauma that prevents a person from forming new memories
- implicit memory
- kind of memory that consists of the skills that people have learned
- closure
- tendency to percieve a whole figure even when there are gaps in sensory input
- neurotransmitters
- what are acetylcholine and dopamine
- color wheel
- the spectrum of light bent into a circle
- operant conditioning
- primary and secondary reinforcers are important in
- synapses
- what are located between the axons of one neuron and the dendrite of another
- sociocultural perspective
- contempory psychology approach that emphaizes the study of ethniocity geder culture and socioeconimic status
- flooding
- a method that involves exposing a person to a harmless stimulus until he or she is no longer afraid of it
- conditioned stimulus
- a stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response
- sounds
- what is caused by vibrations that causes changes in air pressure?
- eardrum
- the gateway from the outer ear to the middle ear
- socrates
- philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection
- thyroid
- the gland that secretes growth hormones and hormone that stimulate labor in pregnant women
- spontaneous recovery
- revival of an extinguished response
- monocular cues
- perspective and texture are examples of this
- keeping objects in focus
- what is the lens of eye responsible for?
- REM
- stage of sleep were dreams are most vivid
- negatve
- what type of reinforcer increases the frequency of the behavior it follows when it is removed
- pons
- the part of the reticular activating system that helps regulate sleep and alertness
- memory
- the process by which we recall experiences, info, and skills
- biofeedback
- system that feeds back information about somehting happening in the body
- cerebellum
- part of the hindbrain thats helps control balance and coordination
- height of sound waves
- what does the loudness of a sound depend on?
- recency effect
- tendencey to recall the last items in a series
- corpus cellosum
- what is responsible for moving info from one hemisphere of the brain to the other
- unconditioned stimulus
- stimulus that causes an automatic response
- blue, green, and red light
- what are cones in retina are sensative?
- cerebrum
- part of the cerebral cortex that governs thought and language
- systematic desensitization
- method that involves relaxationation and gradual exposure to a fear stimulus
- short term memory
- working memory
- rods and cones
- what are the two kinds of photoreceptors
- counterconditioning
- method of overcoming fears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared one
- balance
- a person's vestibular sense helps control
- thalamus
- part of the forebrain that serves as a relay station for sensory stimulation
- hypothalamus
- unusual drinking and eating behaviors can be caused by damage to the
- continuity
- perceptual preference for seeing smooth, continous patterns
- retrieval
- the memory process that allows people to locate stored information and return it to conscious thought
- latent learning
- the form of learning that keeps knowledge hidden untilit is need
- altered state of consciousness
- state of awarness in which a person's sense of slef or of the world alters
- iconic
- memory tyoe if sensory register that holds visual memories
- genes
- the basic building blocks of heredity
- John Watson
- founder of the school of behaviorism
- stimulus
- something that produces a response
- photoreceptor
- neuron that is sensitive to light
- operant conditioning
- form of learning based of the consquences of actions
- cognitive activity
- mental orcess such as a dream or memory
- 4 to 5
- how many sleep cycles do peole go through each night
- shaping
- the process of learning to ride a bicycle is an example of
- pituitary gland
- what gland secretes many hormones that affect a wide range of behaviors
- William Wundt
- founded structurism
- circadian rhythm
- biological clock
- Willam James
- wrote the first modern psychology
- stroboscopic motion
- illusion of movement produced by rapid progression of images
- outlines of objects
- rods in the retina allow us to recognize what?
- binocular cue
- convergence is an example of what type of cue
- somatic nervous system
- part of the peripheral nervous system that transmits sensory messages
- blind spot
- the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye
- pupil
- opening in the colored part of the eye
- brain and spinal cord
- the two main divisions of the central nervous system
- central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
- what are the two parts of the nervous system
- middle ear
- conductive deafnessoccurs because of damage to what?
- delusion
- false idea that seems real
- cochlea
- bony tube in the inner ear that contains fluid and neurons
- retina
- sunsitive surface of the eye that acts like the film of a camera
- autonomic nervous system
- part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates the body's vital functions
- primary reinforcer
- form of classical conditioning in which a food comes to be avoided
- extinction
- when a conditioned response stops occurring
- electromagnetic energy
- what light is made up of
- sleep apnea
- breathing interruption that occurs durning sleep
- hallucination
- perception of an object or a sound thats seems real but is not
- kinship studies
- What type of study evaluates people who are related to try to determine the roles of heredity and enviroment
- sematic memory
- consits of general knowledge
- construct
- what is consciousness concidered
- bionacular cue
- retinal disparity is and example of
- dendrite
- thin fibers that transmit messages across synapses
- endorine system
- sustem that consists of glands that secrete hormones
- electric
- what does the EEG measure the brains
- kenneth clark
- psychologist who studied the effect of segregation on children
- pupils repond slower to light
- why do many older ppl become farsighted?
- sympathetic nervouse system
- the "fight or flight" response to a stressful situation is activated by the
- sematice code
- info stored according to its meaning
- detoxification
- removal of poisonous substances from teh body
- sensation
- the process of recieving sensory stiumlation
- echoic memory
- sensory register that holds mental traces of sounds
- olfactorary nerve
- nerve that sends information about odors to the brain
- alpha, theta, beta, delta
- what are the 4 types of waves
- testosterone, estrogen, progesterone
- what do the testies and ovaries produce
- singal-detection theory
- what attemps to find out how psychological factors affect perception
- read, reflect, recite, review
- the 4Rs of the PQ4R method
- voluntary reponses
- through operant conditioningpeople learn to control
- classical conditioning
- Ivan Pavlov's experiment with dog yielded information about
- fruecency
- what does a sound's pitch depend on?
- skin senses
- pressure and temperature are example of this
- left hemisphere
- the ability to create language orginates where?
- dificulties understanding speech
- what does damage to Broca's area and Wernickle's area of the brain can cause?
- discrimination
- act of responding differnetly to stimuli that are not simular
- perception
- the process by which we interpet sensory stimulation
- unconditioned response
- a response that is automatic
- difference threshold
- minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli
- absolute threshold
- weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed
- neuron
- nerve cell
- kinesthesis
- even with eyes closed a person knows about the position and motion of his or her body parts becasue of
- maintence rehearsal
- method of repeating info over and over adian
- parasympathetic and sympathetic
- what are the autonomic nervous system divided into
- primary reinforcer
- stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs
- encoding
- the memory process that translates information into a form in which it cna be stored
- stroboscopic motion
- The reason that movies are percieved as moving images because of this
- myelin
- fatty substance that protects the axon
- cerebrum
- the largest part of the brain
- shaping
- the method of teaching complex behaviors by breaking them down into manageable parts
- adrenal glands
- what produces the hormone adrenaline and noradrenaline
- episodic memory
- kind of memory that consists of specific
- chemical senses
- smell and taste are known as