Week 5 Lectures

Question 1

What is the purpose of the Gardner reading?

Answer 1

Purpose was to describe the morphology of human touch.
Highlights skin mechanoreceptors in the somatosensory cortex.

Question 2

What is touch?

Answer 2

Sensory information about the physical properties of objects. Size, temp, shape, etc.

Question 3

What is the sense of touch?

Answer 3

occurs when the skin/body is contacted by an external stimulus

Question 4

What happens as a result from touch?

Answer 4

the skin is indented or stretched
OR the nerves can be destroyed

Question 5

What are mechanoreceptors?

Answer 5

Receptors in the skin that detect mechanical stimuli (forces) and
translate those forces to electrical signal in the cortex

Question 6

What are merkel cells?

Answer 6

Merkel cells are mechanoreceptors that are involved in touch and are usually activated by the touching of objects or really fine sensations.

Question 7

What are the two types of social influences?

Answer 7

information and peer pressure

Question 7

What is the purpose of nudge chapter 3?

Answer 7

purpose of the paper was to define social influences as nudges and explain how to use social influences in the design of choice architecture

Question 8

What is peer pressure?

Answer 8

convey that a norm is popular
such as most people prefer X.

Question 8

What is information?

Answer 8

convey what people do such as what music have people listened to?

Question 9

What are the two types of nudges?

Answer 9

intentional and unintentional

Question 10

What is an intentional nudge?

Answer 10

light pushing for people to do something such as don’t mess with teax

Question 11

What is an unintentional nudge?

Answer 11

Not meaning to push people such as seattle epidemic

Question 12

What is the purpose of the Werner chapter 4?

Answer 12

The purpose of the chapter was how to take care of a sick person and indicate when a person needs medical intervention

Question 13

What is behavior?

Answer 13

anything an organism does that involves a response to a stimulus

Question 14

What constraints behavior?

Answer 14

is constrained by the organism’s structure

Question 15

What is something that confirms behavior?

Answer 15

can be directly observed by others or indirectly by equipment

Question 16

What was the monkey stimulus?

Answer 16

<otor responses evoked by electrical brain stimulus to the cerebral cortex.
No visible stimulus was presented. Responses are constrained by monkey structure. The behavior is observable

Question 17

What is smoking?

Answer 17

organism inhales smoke from cigarette to lungs/mouth

Question 18

What does smoking require?

Answer 18

smoking requires oral lung, and brain tissue structures

Question 19

What are observable motor responses?

Answer 19

precision grip, hand/mouth, inhale/exhale

Question 20

What is a response class?

Answer 20

the series of organism responses that characterize a broader behavior

Question 21

What makes a response class useful?

Answer 21

To detect when a behavior occurs. To measure it along a dimension. To observe stimulus

Question 22

What is behavior repertoire?

Answer 22

All behaviors an organism can perform. Given its species inherited traits (morphology)
and given its individual learning history.

Question 23

What is a dimension?

Answer 23

A dimension is a quantifiable unit of an organism behavior and serves as the measurement of behavior (amount of time)

Question 24

What is event-response latency?

Answer 24

time elapsed from stimulus to an organism’s behavior

Question 25

What is an example of event-response latency?

Answer 25

verbal stimulus to study for exam and it doesn’t process until later when doing homework

Question 26

What is duration?

Answer 26

time elapsed from the start of a behavior until its completion

Question 27

What is an example of duration?

Answer 27

one smoking about typically lasts 5 minutes from first to last minute

Question 28

What is frequency?

Answer 28

total count of the behavior during time frame

Question 29

What is an example of frequency?

Answer 29

commute 3 times a day

Question 30

What is inter-response time?

Answer 30

time elapsed between two occurrences the behavior

Question 31

What is an example of inter-response time?

Answer 31

smoked cigs 4 hours apart

Question 32

What is the measurement of length?

Answer 32

inches

Question 33

What is the measurement of blood glucose?

Answer 33

gum/dL

Question 34

What is the measurement of volume?

Answer 34

ounces

Question 35

What is the measurement of speed?

Answer 35

mph