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Psychology exam #2
Question | Answer |
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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 |