Flashcards-P&S

Question 1

Hippocampus

Answer 1

-responsible for your memory and learning

Question 2

Amygdala

Answer 2

-involved with emotion, aggression, and fears
-stimulation of amygdala results in anger, violence, and fear

Question 3

Operant conditioning

Answer 3

reinforcement and habituation

Question 4

Dishabituation

Answer 4

when a previously habituated stimulus produces response again

Question 5

Desensitization

Answer 5

decreased response to a previously sensitized stimulus over time
eg: afraid of birds–>your therapist let you talk more about birds in detail

Question 6

serial position effect

Answer 6

selective recall of items presented at the beginning (primacy) and the end (recency) effect

Question 7

Sleep stages and waves

Answer 7

BAT DB
-Theta waves- stage 1+ stage 2 (w/ sleep spindles and K complexes)
-Delta-stage 3&4 slow wave sleep
-REM high f, low amplitude-similar to beta waves

Question 8

Long term memory

Answer 8

Explicit and implicit memories
Procedural-riding a bike or tying shoes

Question 9

Source Monitoring

Answer 9

errors that occur when an individual incorrectly attributes a memory to the wrong source

Question 10

Instinctive drift

Answer 10