3. Perspectives and Methods

4. Biological Basis of Human Behavior

5. Sensation and Perception

6. Learning

7. Memory

8. Cognition

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10. What is a case study?

11. Research technique in which one person is studied in depth

12. What is correlation? AND What is the most important thing to remember about correlation?

13. Extent to which 2 things are related Correlation does NOT equal causation!

14. What is natural selection?

15. Traits that contribute to survival will be passed on to succeeding generations

16. Perspective that focused on the function of conscious experience

17. Functionalism

18. What is an independent variable? Dependent?

19. Independent: thing that is manipulated to see if there is a change in the depend. variable Dependent: thing that is influenced by the independent variable

20. A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of the neuron

21. Action Potential

22. What is your frontal lobe responsible for?

23. Planning and judgment Motor cortex

24. The “recharging phase” when a neuron, after firing, cannot generate another action potential

25. Refractory Period

26. Part of the brain responsible for emotions like fear and anger

27. Amygdala

28. Hormone that is responsible for releasing strength and increasing endurance during stressful situations

29. Epinephrine

30. The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

31. Perception

32. Part of the eye that works with the iris to control the amount of light that enters the eye

33. Pupil

34. Trace the path of sound as it goes through your ear

35. Ear canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, oval window, cochlea, auditory nerve

36. Kinesthetic v. Vestibular senses

37. Kinesthetic: general orientation of limbs Vestibular: orientation in space (upside down, spinning, etc)

38. Monocular depth cue that determines depth by noting that parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

39. Linear Perspective

40. Process in which an organism produces the same response to two similar stimuli

41. Generalization

42. Who is responsible for the BoBo doll experiments?

43. Albert Bandura

44. What is negative reinforcement?

45. Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by removing an undesirable event or state

46. ID the US;UR;CS;CR for Pavlov’s experiment

47. US: Meat PowderCS: Tuning Fork UR: DroolingCR: Drooling

48. Interval schedules deal with… Ratio schedules deal with…

49. Interval: time that has passed by Ratio: number of times something is done

50. Method of retrevial used by essay, fill-in- the blank, and short answer questions

51. Recall

52. Retrieval method used by multiple choice tests

53. Recognition

54. Part of your memory you are aware of – often called “working memory”

55. Short-term memory

56. What is implicit memory? What part of the brain processes these memories?

57. Memories of tasks and skills Cerebellum

58. What is the misinformation effect? Who did research on this?

59. Incorporating misleading info into one’s memory Elizabeth Loftus

60. Typical best example of a concept

61. Prototype

62. What is the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme?

63. Phoneme: smallest unit of sound Morpheme: smallest unit of sound with meaning

64. What is intelligence?

65. Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to a new situation

66. What is the difference between achievement and aptitude tests?

67. Achievement: Achievement: Tests that attempt to measure what the test-taker has accomplished Aptitude: Aptitude: Tests that attempt to predict the test-taker’s future performance

68. What is validity?

69. Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is suppose to