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12 Week Exam Review Flashcards

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Unlearned. Food.

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UC (unconditioned)

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Reflexive. Can’t control. Involuntary. CC-can’t control.

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Classical conditioning

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Saliva. Don’t teach yourself to salivate. Responses are typically the same whether they are conditioned or unconditioned.

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UR (unconditioned response)

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Is first neutral, then becomes conditioned because it gains meaning.

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Bell

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Operating on your surroundings

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Operant

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Type of sample that reflects a population

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Representative sampling

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Best reinforcement to make sure a behavior is resistant to extinction.

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Variable ratio
(With interval you don't know if it's the behavior that gets the result since it's overtime, but with ratio you do know)
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Each side offering small conciliations. Type of problem solving.

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GRIT

Graduated Reduction Tensions

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Deals with traits

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Inheritability

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Relay for all senses

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Thalamus

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You agree to the experiment

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Informed consent

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Reinforcement quickly learned but also quickly extinguished. (Vending machine)

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Fixed ratio

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Behaviorist

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Studies behavior

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Social psych

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How society and culture affect human behavior

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What did Hubel and Wiesel discover in the occipital lobe? They help us see patterns.

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Feature detectors

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Humanistic psychology

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Studies …

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Neuron waiting to fire

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Resting potential

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is learned

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CS (conditioned stimulus)

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is unlearned

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US (unconditioned stimulus)

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Interpersonal relationships depend on…

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Proximity and similarity

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Freud

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Unconscious drives

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Little Albert dependent variable was…

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His reaction

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Changing your opinion based on someone’s facts

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Informational conformity/social influence

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Opened the college

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Most basic unit of nervous system

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Neuron

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Speech processing

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Wernike’s Area. (Hard name to understand, so can’t pronounce it with speech)

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Broca’s Area

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Broken

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Photo receptor cells in eye. Transduce energy into nerve energy

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Rods and cones

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Individual changes opinion to fit in with group

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Conformity

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Ind var

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Can change

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Molecules in the body that so closely mimic neurotransmitters that they open the same receptor sites on a dendrite

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Antagonists

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Receptor cells in the ear

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Hair cells

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Yay boo game was ex of this. Successively rewarding good behavior

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Shaping

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No, ok well how about something smaller. Car to bike. Sure!

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Door in the face

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After info is processed in the eye’s photo receptor cells, info is transferred to optic nerve via what

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Via bipolar cells

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Unlike Waterboy, this actually controls aggression

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Amygdala

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Controls the 4 F’s

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Hypothalamus

The 4 F’s: feeding, f, fighting, fleeing

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In Signal Detection Theory, saying a stimulus is there when it isn’t really is what

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A false alarm

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In the Asch experiment, conformity decreased when…

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the decision was not unanimous

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Reinforcers given right after a behavior occurs

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Immediate reinforcers

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Observational learning

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Bandura

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the ability to feel that you are able to accomplish tasks

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Self-efficacy

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How related two topics are

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Correlation

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Minimal amount of energy to tell receptor cells that info is present

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Absolute threshold

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We see stars because we stimulate the occipital lobe which operates under what doctrine?

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Doctrine of specific nerve energies

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To have the most generalized sample possible, it must be what

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Generalized and random

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Neurotransmitter that deals with movement

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acetylcholine

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Light entering eye

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Pupil
Lens
Inverts image
Retina
Has receptor cells (rods and cones)
Transduce 
Bipolar cells
Ganglion cells (axons=optic nerve)
Optic chiasm (images from each eye converge)
Thalamus 
Occipital lobe 
Neural transmitters help us determine which image is which
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Hearing

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Ear canal
Ear drum
Bones 
Oval window cochlea
Hair cells 
Transduce?
Auditory nerve
Thalamus 
Temporal lobe
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all hair cells vibrate

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Frequency theory

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bounces

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Volley principle

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specific spots on membrane that respond to specific stimulus. Place are placed on vascular membrane

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Place theory

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