Things I Need To Work On

Question 1

Aquisition

Answer 1

Initial phase of learning, response established. Uncontrolled stimulus paired with neutral stimulus. Predictability.

Question 2

Endogenous rhythms

Answer 2

Biological rhythms generated by body, independent external cues.

Question 3

Beta waves

Answer 3

High frequency (15-30Hz), low amplitude wakefulness

Question 4

Alpha waves

Answer 4

Lower frequency (8-14Hz), daydreaming.

Question 5

Alpha waves

Answer 5

Stages 1-2, lower frequency (4-8Hz), higher amplitude, blood pressure, heart rate decrease still sensitive.

Question 6

Sleep spindles (stage 2)

Answer 6

Clusters of high frequency low amplitude

Question 7

K complex (stage 2)

Answer 7

Small groups, larger amplitude

Question 8

Delta waves (stages 3-4)

Answer 8

Low frequency (<3Hz), high amplitude, deep sleep.

Question 9

Manifest content (sigmund freud)

Answer 9

Storytelling

Question 10

Latent content (sigmund freud)

Answer 10

Symbolic meaning (sexual urges, aggression)

Question 11

Activation synthesis

Answer 11

Bursts of activity from pons in occipital and frontal lobe, EEG.

Question 12

Lock-in syndrome

Answer 12

Aware and awake, can’t move appears conscious. Damage to pons.

Question 13

Persistent vegetative state (damage)

Answer 13

Grey and white matter

Question 14

Coma (damage)

Answer 14

Brainstem

Question 15

Marijuana memory

Answer 15

Frontal lobe decrease, Cannibanoid receptors, found through hypothalamus, loss of grey and white matter in temporal lobe.

Question 16

Stimulus generation

Answer 16

Response originally occurred for specific stimulus offer differently now. Result when activation of our brains representation of stimuli also activate representation of related stimuli.

Question 17

Stimulus discrimination

Answer 17

Organism learns to respond to one original conditioned to a specific, not new stimuli that may be similar.

Question 18

Operant conditioning

Answer 18

Contingency and reinforcement.

Question 19

Avoidance learning

Answer 19

Removes possibility of negative stimulus will occur.

Question 20

Escape learning

Answer 20

Removes negative stimulus that’s already present.

Question 21

Positive punishment

Answer 21

Unpleasant

Question 22

Negative reinforcement

Answer 22

Unwanted

Question 23

Nucleus accumbens

Answer 23

Reward -> dopamine high -> later to thalamus

Question 24

Discriminative stimulus

Answer 24

Cue indicates a response will be reinforced.

Question 25

Discrimination

Answer 25

Response to discriminative stimuli, not new stimuli.

Question 26

Generalization

Answer 26

Operant response occurs in response to new stimulus.

Question 27

Fixed-ratio (partial termite therapy reinforcement)

Answer 27

Reinforcement delivered after specific number of responses has been complete.

Question 28

Variable-ratio (partial termite therapy reinforcement)

Answer 28

Number of responses, required to receive reinforcement varies according to average.

Question 29

Fixed-interval (partial termite therapy reinforcement)

Answer 29

Reinforces first response according after a set amount of time passes.

Question 30

Variable-interval (partial termite therapy reinforcement)

Answer 30

First response is reinforced following a variable amount of time.

Question 31

Observational learning (4 processes)

Answer 31

Attention, memory, reproduction of behaviour, motivation

Question 32

Mirror Neurons

Answer 32

Help us understand others emotional states, facilitate learning.

Question 33

Sensory information

Answer 33

memory store accurately holds perceptual information for brief amount of time.

Question 34

Chunking

Answer 34

Organizing smaller units of information into larger more meaningful units EX) phone numbers.

Question 35

Proactive interference

Answer 35

First information learned copies memory, leaves less resources for newer information to be remembered.

Question 36

Retroactive interference

Answer 36

Recently learned information blocked older memories that have not yet fully encoded into LTM.

Question 37

During recall

Answer 37

Hippocampus activation (formation of LTM), brain regions associated with sensory more active.

Question 38

Phonological loop

Answer 38

Storage component relies on rehearsal, stores information as sounds or auditory code.

Question 39

Episodic buffer

Answer 39

Storage components combines phonological loop and visuospatial loop. Combines sounds and images into coherent stories. Allows organize and make sense of incoming stimuli.

Question 40

Central executive

Answer 40

Control centre of working memory. Coordinates attention and exchange. Controlled by frontal lobe regions.