Ch5-8

Question 1

Pupil

Answer 1

is the small opening in the eye through which light passes, can change due to light levels and emotional arousal

Question 2

Muller-Lyer illusion

Answer 2

is when lines appear to be different lengths when they are actually the same

Question 3

Gustation

Answer 3

taste

Question 4

Olfactory Receptors

Answer 4

are the hair-like parts that extend from the olfactory bulb into the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity.

Question 5

Taste groupings we experience

Answer 5

sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami

Question 6

congenital deafness

Answer 6

people born without hearing

Question 7

sensory adaptation

Answer 7

Stimuli that remains constant over prolonged periods of time

Question 8

subliminal message

Answer 8

messages presented below the threshold for conscious awareness

Question 9

sensation vs perception

Answer 9

physical process feeling vs psychological perceiving

Question 10

describe the Sanchez family.

Answer 10

The Sanchez Family was located in Detroit and part of LACASA when professor Pedroza had a 9 o’clock appointment at the Sanchez family house, cousins were outside drinking at the porch when he entered the home to find the mother brother and uncle in a dark room watching a 10” black and white tv with no volume but then realized after a while the absolute threshold kicked in which is the minimum amount of stimuli for it to be detected he noticed there was relatively low volume

Question 11

Taste Aversion

Answer 11

is a type of conditioning in which an interval of several hours may pass between the conditioned stimulus (something ingested) and the unconditioned stimulus (nausea or illness).

Question 12

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 12

(1849–1936), a Russian scientist, performed extensive research on dogs and is best known for his experiments in classical conditioning

Question 13

Little alert experiment

Answer 13

research on a baby nicknamed Little Albert. Rayner and Watson’s experiments with Little Albert demonstrated how fears can be conditioned using classical conditioning. Through these experiments, Little Albert was exposed to and conditioned to fear certain things.

Question 14

Learning

Answer 14

is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience.

Question 15

Edward C Tolman

Answer 15

Tolman’s experiments with rats demonstrated that organisms can learn even if they do not receive immediate reinforcement

Question 16

extinction

Answer 16

is the decrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus.

Question 17

Stimulus Generalization

Answer 17

when an organism demonstrates the conditioned response to stimuli that are similar to the condition stimulus

Question 18

Operant Conditioning

Answer 18

organisms learn, again, to associate events—a behavior and its consequence (reinforcement or punishment).

Question 19

describe the reinforcement activity and define relate the topic from class to the activity

Answer 19

A male and female in our class were pulled outside the classroom while the professor and students decided to make the make touch the black book in the back of the classroom and the female touch the brain on the shelves to the right of the classroom. We used positive reinforcement by tapping our pens on the desks as they got closer to the item,

Question 20

Babbling

Answer 20

stage, during which time they tend to produce single syllables that are repeated over and over. As time passes, more variations appear in the syllables that they produce.

Question 21

Case Study of genie

Answer 21

, her neglectful and abusive upbringing led to her being unable to speak until, at age 13, she was removed from that harmful environment.

Question 22

Language

Answer 22

a communication system that involves using words and systematic rules to organize those words to transmit information from one individual to another.

Question 23

Howard Gardner’s Multiple intelligences

Answer 23

linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, bodily kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence.

Question 24

Functional Fixedness

Answer 24

is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than it was designed for

Question 25

Dyslexia

Answer 25

an inability to correctly process letters

Question 26

Describe the army alpha test
Review the history and the role of bias
list your score

Answer 26

in 1917 majority of men were considered moron be because of the alpha test and my personal score was 9 and I did not score well because of generational bias while the men in 1917 was because of educational bias

Question 27

recognition

Answer 27

happens when you identify information that you have previously learned

Question 28

False memory syndrome

Answer 28

Recall of false autobiographical memories

Question 29

Flashbulb memory

Answer 29

is an exceptionally clear recollection of an important event

Question 30

memory

Answer 30

is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time

Question 31

forgetting

Answer 31

loss of information from long-term memory.

Question 32

chunking

Answer 32

you organize information into manageable bits or chuncks

Question 33

episodic memory

Answer 33

is information about events we have personally experienced

Question 34

mnemonic

Answer 34

are memory aids that help us organize information for encoding

Question 35

retroactive vs proactive interference

Answer 35

when old information hinders the recall of newly learned information. vswhen information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information.

Question 36

anterograde amnesia

Question 37

describe the spidey memory exercise
how did you do
define
relate a memory term (recognition) and explain what happened

Answer 37

Spidey stepped out of the room while he had a male student read off questions on his attire and although he was in our recognition before he stepped out of class I still did pretty bad because I did not really pay attention.