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Psychology exam #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Physical 5 senses | Sensation |
| Mental Component/interprets sensation | Perception |
| Converts one form of energy to another | Senses |
| Minimal stimulation necessary to feel a sense | Absolute Threshold |
| Perceptions are influenced by | Motivation and Emotion |
| convert particles of light energy into neural impulses and forward those to the brain | Receptor Cells |
| Do many things at one time with our vision. Detect: color, motion, form, and depth | Parallel Processing |
| Sounds, pitch, and loudness depends upon the jostling of what in the air? | Molecules |
| Sound enters through the what also known as the auditory canal | Outer Ear (Pinna) |
| Middle ear is made up of what and most infections occur here | 3 tiny bones, Infections are in cochlea |
| sends impulses to the brain from ear | auditory nerve |
| Warning sign that damage has occured in the ear | Ringing in the ear |
| essential for growth and development | touch |
| touch comes in 4 manners | pressure, warmth, cold, pain |
| Taste involves 5 different types | sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami |
| sense of smell is | Olfaction |
| ESP is | Extra Sensory Perception |
| sense of position and movement of your body parts | Kinesthesis |
| 3 measures of retention | Recall, Recognition, Relearning |
| Memory occurs for very short time (fleeting) | Sensory |
| Rule of 7 + or - 2 | Short Term |
| Memory stored forever | Long Term |
| Memory that comes automatically | Implicit Memory |
| way of remembering a lot of info. | Mneumonics |
| involved in you remembering how to ride your bike | Basal Ganglia |
| Produces stress that aides in memory retention | Trauma |
| something we have to put effort into when remembering | Explicit Memory |
| when you unlearn a behavior | Exsitition |
| act in a similar way in a similar environment | Generalization |
| Basis for most learning. There is a stimuli and a response | Classical Conditioning |
| the process of acquiring a new and enduring information or behavior | Learning |
| created classical conditioning | Ivan Pavlod |
| Stimulus/Response | Classical Conditioning |
| Response/Stimulus | Operant Conditioning |
| Person that created Operant Conditioning | B.F. Skinner |
| something you look forward to; increases behavior/Reward | Positive Reinforcer |
| Increases behavior/Punishment | Negative Reinforcer |
| motivation that comes from within | Instrinsict motivation |
| when we model what other people are doing | Observational Learning |
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