Learning Flashcards
Aristotle’s 3 principles of association
Contiguity, Similarity and Contrast
Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve shows that the rate of forgetting in the first few minutes after studying is _ than the rate of forgetting a week later.
Faster
Animals have been used as research subjects more often by _ psychologists than by _ psychologists.
Behavioral, Cognitive
Acc to John B. Watson, if psychology is to be a science it must focus on observable events, namely _ & _.
Stimuli, Responses
According to Skinner, theories in psychology shouldn’t include _.
intervening variables(unobservable events)
In communication between neurons, a chemical transmitter is released by the _ of one neuron and received by the _ of another neuron.
Axon Terminal, Dendrites
There are 3 types of cones in the human retina that respond to 3 diff types of stimuli
Red, Green and Blue
The “simple cells” in the visual cortex found by Hubel and Wiesel respond specifically to
lines of specific orientations
3 main types of changes that can occur in the brain as a result of a learning experience are
chemical changes, growth of new synapses and growth of new neurons
By removing diff parts of the brains of rats after they learned a maze, Lashley concluded that memories are stored
diffusely throughout the brain
Most complex visual detectors ever reported
Cortical neurons in Macaque Monkeys
IACUC full form
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
In control systems theory, the comparator compares the _ and _, and if they do not match, the comparator signals the _.
Actual input, reference input and action system
In control systems theory, the comparator compares the _ and _, and if they do not match, the comparator signals the _.
Actual input, reference input and action system
In the flexion reflex, pain receptors in the hand have synaptic connections with _, which in turn have synapses with _.
Interneurons, Motor Neurons
A kinesis is a _ movement in response to a stimulus, and a taxis is a _ movement in response to a stimulus.
Random, Directional
The main difference between fixed action patterns and reaction chains is that
the behavior or sequence occurs in a rigid order in fixed action patterns, but it is more flexible in reaction chains
Abilities or behaviors that are found in all known human cultures are called
human universals
