Cumulative

Question 1

What are the characteristics of REM sleep?

Answer 1

EEG patterns w/beta waves resembling those of wakefulness; dreams occur

Question 2

What are the universal emotions argued by Ekman to be displayed on the face?

Answer 2

1) happiness
2) shock
3) fear
4) anger
5) sadness
6) contempt

Question 3

Define Dopamine

Answer 3

a neurotransmitter that regulates motor behavior, motivation, pleasure, and emotional arousal

Question 4

Define Garcia effect

Answer 4

Garcia effect one-trial learning couldn’t be with any conditioned stimulus; he brought rats, got them sick with poisonous water, and if he added some flavor to the water, rats would forever ignore that taste, but it didn’t work with bright lights or noises

Question 5

Describe serotonin

Answer 5

sleep and wakefulness, impulsivity and aggression; influenced by antidepressants

Question 6

What is the primacy effect?

Answer 6

ppl start rehearsing information, and first words get rehearsed more, keep repeating from the beginning, go from short-term to long-term through rehearsal

Question 7

What is the recency effect?

Answer 7

last few are least rehearsed, but because they are at the end and were recently studies, it’s still in short-term memory cramming, won’t be remembered for long

Question 8

What is the difference between retrograde and anterograde amnesia?

Answer 8

retrograde-the inability to retrieve info that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an injury or surgery
anterograde-inability to transfer new info from the short-term into the long-term