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Exam #2 Flashcards

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Rods

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Detect black, white, and gray

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Cones

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Clustered near center of retina, detecting fine detail, and colors

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Perceptual Adaption

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Adjusting our perception even when vision is changed, senses can adapt (backwards bike)

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Audition

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Physical, hearing

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How are sound waves transformed into nerve impulses

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physical energy to neural impulses

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What sounds can humans hear best?

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Human voices

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What are the four basic and distinct skin senses?

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Pressure, warmth, cold, and pain

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Cochlea

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Inner ear, looks like a snail

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Auditory nerve

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Transmits to the auditory cortex in temporal lobe

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Endorphins

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Natural pain killers, morphine stimulates endorphins

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Gustation

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Taste

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Olfaction

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Smell, Chemical. Less acute than seeing and hearing

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Kinesthesia

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Awareness of body position and movement

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Vestibular sense

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Monitors your head position and movement (car sickness)

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What are the 5 taste sensations?

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Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, unmami

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What is pain for?

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To show us that something is wrong

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What are the 7 sensory systems, their source, their receptors, and their key brain areas?

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Auditory, touch, pain, gustation, olfaction, kinesthesia, and vestibular senses.

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Sensorimotor

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Piaget’s stages object permanence

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Preoperational

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Symbolic thinking: Things can represent other things

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Conservation

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Can’t perform mental operations, transforming things in your mind

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Concrete operational

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Comprehending, mathematical, transformations, and conservation (cat in the room = sneezing, cat not in the room = not sneezing)

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Formal operational

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Abstract reasoning (math with letters, knowing that they represent numbers) (a+b=c)

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Zone of proximal development

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Vygotsky’s Theory:social process of learning (why we play sports with people that are as good as we are)

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How does motor development differ from skill development in infancy and childhood?

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Motor development happens to everybody, skill development genes play a factor (hand eye coordination)

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What influences the social development and attachment styles in infancy and childhood

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Body contact, familiarity, strange situation (Ainsworth’s research)

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What physical developments (in the brain) occur during adolescence?

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Growth of myelin (able to think quickly), frontal lobe lagging behind limbic system (teenagers not being able to process emotion)

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According to Erikson, what is the main “conflict” in adolescence?

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Developing identity, experiencing/experimenting with identity and roles

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What impacts well-being in middle and late adulthood

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Mid-life crisis, Erikson’s Intimacy, forming relationships

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Classical conditioning

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Biologically adaptive, helping animals prepare for good/bad events (dogs getting excited when you pick up the lease)

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Neutral stimulus

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Doesn’t create automatic response (ringing the bell before the experiment)

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Unconditional stimulus

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Creates unconditioned response (smelling meat and salivating)

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Unconditioned response

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Response to stimulus automatically without thinking

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Conditioned stimulus

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Stimulus that produces a certain response (bell, that means food)

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Conditioned response

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A response through LEARED stimulation

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Acquisition

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The initial stage of classical conditioning (“acquiring” learned association)

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Extinction

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When acquisition stops

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Generalization

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Applying the association to more than just the conditioned stimulus

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Operant chamber

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“Skinner box” B.F. Skinner, Reinforcing desired behavior, punishing undesired behavior

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Operant conditioning

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Cats ringing a bell for food

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Discrimination

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Recognize differences in similar stimulus (flinching at a gun, not a firework)

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Shaping

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Gradually reward behaviors until desired behavior is achieved

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Reinforcement

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Something you do to encourage the behavior (do more of that)

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Punishment

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Discouraging undesired behavior (do less of that)

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Positive reinforcement

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Adding something to increase the desired behavior (giving a dog a treat when they sit)

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Negative reinforcement

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Removing something to increase the desired behavior (decreasing jail time for good behavior)

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Positive punishment

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Adding something to decrease undesired behavior (adding chores if kid doesn’t get their homework done)

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Negative Punishment

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Removing something to decrease undesired behavior (changing the wifi password as punishment)

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Partial reinforcement

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Limiting reinforcement to keep desired behavior

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Gender expression

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How you express your gender (clothes, hair, physical appearance)

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Gender Identity

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How you feel on the inside

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Social learning theory

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Observing gender roles (boys learning how to be a man from their father) and the way we are “supposed” to express gender

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