Psyc

Question 1

Acquisition

Answer 1

New behaviour, information or skills. The first stage of learning is when a response is established. For example, teaching a child to pick up the phone, when they pick up the phone acquisition has been acquired.

Question 2

Action Potential

Answer 2

An electrical signal, all or none. Example: picking up a glass of water, signals are sent from your brain to your hand.

Question 3

Auditory Nervous System

Answer 3

Converts waves into sounds. Involved the temporal lobe, in the primary auditory cortex. For example: Hearing music, waves go through the ear into the temporal lobe to be transmitted into the brain.

Question 4

Axon

Answer 4

Long Spider-like thin structure apart of the neuron. Carry nerve impulses away from the cell body and are protected by a myelin sheath. Transmits information to other neurons, muscles and glands.

Question 5

Broca’s area

Answer 5

Part of the left frontal lobe controls the movement of the mouth. Component of the temporal cortex. Used for speech, writing, and language.

Question 6

Cell Body

Answer 6

Part of the neutron that has a nucleus and organelles, contains a nucleus and cytoplasm within the membrane. Coordinates information processing tasks and keep cells alive.

Question 7

Central Vicarious Reinforcement

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Learning through the consequences of others. Example. Your sister gets in trouble for not using shampoo so you use shampoo.

Question 8

Cerebrum (Cerebral Cortex)

Answer 8

The cerebrum divides brain into two hemispheres, assosiatided

Question 9

Dendrites

Answer 9

receives information from other neurons relays to the cell body. Long squiggly things like fingers.

Question 10

Depolarization

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less is more, less is negative. Sodium flows into cells, the axon is more positive than outside.

Question 11

Repolarization

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Potassium gates open and positive ions flow out of the axon, the inside of axon is more negative than the outside.

Question 12

Neuron

Answer 12

receive, integrate and transmit information allowing communication in the nervous system.

Question 13

Synapse

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Where information is transmitted from one neuron to another junction. 2 k goes in and 3 Sodium goes out.

Question 14

Threshold of excitation

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level of charge that causes a neuron to become more active, the bottom of the graph before the curve goes up.

Question 15

Terminal Buttons

Answer 15

small knobs, secrete chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) and flow across the synapse and stimulate the next cell. Sending signals to other neurons.

Question 16

Peripheral Nervous System

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Includes, somatic, atomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic nervous systems. Send signals to the back and brain, for example, chewing food, walking and facial expressions.

Question 17

Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Rest and restore homeostasis

Question 18

Sympathetic NS

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Fight, fly, response. Increase in heart rate.

Question 19

Myelin Sheath

Answer 19

White fatty coating, and insulation, speed up signals, and multiple sclerosis when broken.

Question 20

Frontal Lobe

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It Contains, the prefrontal cortex (high level of cognitive function), the motor cortex (movement), and the Bocas area (language).

Question 21

Parietal Lobe

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sensory information. Contains a somatosensory cortex.

Question 22

Occipital Lobe

Answer 22

Visual Information, visual cortex.

Question 23

Limbic System

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Has hippocampus and amygdala, emotion, memory and sensory information

Question 24

Hypothalamus

Answer 24

regulate biological needs, sex drive and eating

Question 25

Thalamus

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Station for incoming sensory information, and filter out information.

Question 26

Fight Flight Response

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Response to stress, focus on negative memories, lose peripheral vision, and focus on tunnel vision.

Question 27

Somatic Nervous System

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Has motor and sensory neurons. conducts sensory, voluntary and motor information.

Question 28

classical conditioning

Answer 28

Learning through association, NS,CS, USC, UCR

Question 29

Computerized

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Candidates use computer to answer questions

Question 30

Conditioned Response

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Learned response to neutral stimulus

Question 31

Lateralization

Answer 31

Distinct regions of the brain, one side controls the other side.

Question 32

Secondary Reinforcement

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Conditioned stimulus causing learned behaviour, association with primary reinforcers

Question 33

Neuoplasticity

Answer 33

Ability to change and function through response to experience

Question 34

Social Learning Theory

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All social behaviour is learned by observing and imitating behaviour of others.

Question 35

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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Test that measures electrical activity in the brain using electrodes.

Question 36

Tomography (PET)

Answer 36

Uses radioactive substances to measure changes in the metabolic system of tissues.

Question 37

Tomography (CT scan)

Answer 37

Medical imaging to see internal images of the body. Lots of radiation.

Question 38

Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

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Changes in blood oxygen and flow in response to neural activity.

Question 39

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

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No radiation, three-dimensional images through radio waves.

Question 40

Desensitization

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A process that takes away emotional responsiveness to a stimulus repeatedly exposed.

Question 41

Extinction

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The disappearance of behaviour that was previously learned by association with another event through withdrawing the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 42

Hyperpolarization

Answer 42

Increase in electric potential across the membrane of the cell, so the inner membrane becomes more negative than the outside.

Question 42

Hyperpolarization

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Increase in electric potential across the membrane of the cell, so the inner membrane becomes more negative than the outside.

Question 42

Temporal Lobe

Answer 42

hearing, memory and emotion, auditory cortex, and wenikes area

Question 43

Parietal Lobe

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Process information, senses (somatosensory cortex) touch and pain

Question 44

Occipital Lobe

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To see, apart of the posterior cerebella,

Question 45

Frontal Lobe

Answer 45

motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, brocas area