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Psychology Exam3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| internal condition which can change over time that orients an individual to a specific set of goals | motivational state or drive |
| the tendency to maintain a balanced internal state | homeostasis |
| lack of homeostasis produces a _______ | drive |
| primary biological drives that result in death if ignored | regulatory drives |
| drives to satisfy needs that aren't life threatening | nonregulatory drives |
| hypothalamus | regulates many drive systems |
| lateral and ventromedial areas play a central role in ________ | the hunger drive |
| What stimulates hunger? | lateral area |
| destruction to the lateral area does what? | reduces the hunger drive |
| stimulation in the ventromedial area does what? | depresses hunger |
| destruction of the ventromedial area causes what? | obesity |
| sleep deprivation can lead to ______ | death |
| What is REM sleep characterized by? | an active brain but a paralyzed body |
| What is Non-REM sleep characterized by? | an active brain but a moveable body |
| Brief transition stage when first falling asleep | Sleep Stage 1 |
| successively deeper stages of sleep that are characterized by an increasing percentage of irregular, high-amplitude Delta Waves | Stages 2 through 4 |
| Stage that has the biggest and slowest brain waves. also where it takes the most stimulation to awaken someone | Stage 4 |
| What happens in the sleep cycle? | upon reaching stage 4, and after about 80 to 100 minutes of sleep, sleep lightens and returns through stages 3 and 2. Then REM sleep emerges and you have dreams. |
| How many sleep cycles typically occur in a night? | 4 or 5 |
| death, impaired immune system, irritability, slowed performance are effects of... | sleep deprivation |
| class of subjective feeling elicited by stimuli that have high significance to an individual | emotions |
| the tendency to overestimate the duration of the emotional consequences of an event | impact bias |
| suggests that the perception of a stimulus elicits the emotion which then causes the bodily arousal | common-sense theory of emotion |
| events lead to physical changes | James-Lange Theory of Emotion |
| Inference influences KIND of emotion. Degree of arousal influences the INTENSITY | Schacter-Singer Two Factor Theory |
| brain's shortcut for emotions | amygdala |
| influence people's conscious emotional feelings and ability to act in planned ways based on feelings | frontal lobes |
| processing positive emotions | left frontal lobe |
| processing negative emotions | right frontal lobe |
| critical for evaluating other people's emotions | right hemisphere |
| each basic emotion is associated with a unique facial expression | facial feedback theory |
| emotions are cues that facilitate our ability to interact with others | Honest Display Theory |
| capacity for goal-directed and adaptive behavior | intelligence |
| amount of info that is known | crystallized intelligence |
| the ability to possess info such as the ability to think on the spot by drawing inferences and understanding relations between concepts | fluid intelligence |
| condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an amazing specific skill | Savant Syndrome |
| chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance | Mental Age (Binet's notion) |
| probability of another person sharing a gene with you | relatedness |
| number that estimates the degree to which differences in a characteristic from one person to another are caused by genetic differences | the Heritability coefficient |
| is heredity slightly better at predicting a child's IQ that a family environment? | yes |
| women have an advantage with _______ tasks | linguistic |
| men have an advantage with _______ tasks | spatial |
| genetically coded responses to events | reflexes |
| Pavlov's experiment | dogs drooling controlled by bell |
| doesn't normally elicit a response by itself | neutral stimulus |
| always elicits a reflex action | unconditioned stimulus |
| response to an unconditioned stimulus | unconditioned response |
| stimulus that was originally neutral becomes conditioned after it has been paired with the unconditioned stimulus | conditioned stimulus |
| original unconditioned response becomes associated with and is triggered by teh conditioned stimulus | conditioned response |
| repeatedly presenting the CS without the UCS diminishes the CR | extinction |
| after passing of time, the partial return of a CR | spontaneous recovery |
| CR gets triggered by thing that resembles the CS | generalization |
| repeatedly presenting something til it no longer gets a response | habituation |
| phase of classical conditioning when the CS and the US are presented together | acquisition |
| conditioning where the US is a stimulus that acquired its ability to produce learning from an earlier procedure in which it was used as a CS | second-order conditioning |
| the capacity to distinguish between similar but distinct stimuli | discrimination |
| a propensity for learning particular kinds of associations over others | biological preparedness |
| principle that behaviors are followed by a "satisfying state of affairs" | law of effect |
| behavior that an organism produces that has some impact on the environment | operant behavior |
| any stimulus or event that functions to increase the likelihood of the behavior that led to it | reinforcer |
| any stimulus or event that functions to decrease the likelihood of the behavior that led to it | punisher |
| circumstances when external rewards can undermine the intrinsic satisfaction of performing a behavior | overjustification effect |
| an operant conditioning principle in which reinforcements are presented at fixed time periods, provided that the appropriate response is made | fixed interval schedule |
| an operant conditioning principle in which behavior is reinforced based on an average time that has expired since the last reinforcement | variable interval schedule |
| an operant conditioning principle in which reinforcement is delivered after a specific number of responses have been made | fixed ration schedule |
| an operant conditioning principle in which the delivery of reinforcement is based on a particular average number of responses | variable ratio schedule |
| an operant conditioning principle in which only some of the responses made are followed by reinforcement | intermittent reinforcement |
| learning that results from the reinforcement of successive approximations to a final desired behavior | shaping |
| condition in which something is learned but it is not manifested as a behavioral change until the future | latent learning |
| a mental representation of the physical features of the environment | cognitive map |
| a condition in which learning takes place by watching the actions of others | observational learning |
| learning that takes place largely independent of awareness of both the process and the products of information acquisition | implicit learning |
| a strategy that involves changing one's emotional experience by changing the meaning of emotion eliciting stimulus | reappraisal |
| hypothesis that emotional expressions can cause the emotional experiences they signify | facial feedback hypothesis |
| norms for the control of emotional expression | display rules |
| notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain | hedonic principle |
| a motivation to take actions that aren't themselves rewarding but that lead to reward | extrinsic motivation |
| a motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding | intrinsic motivation |
| a naturally occuring 24-hour cycle | circadian rhythm |
| electrooculograph | instrument that measures eye movements |
| stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity | REM sleep |
| disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep | sleep apnea |
| somnambulism | sleep walking |
| person of normal intelligence who has an extraordinary ability | prodigy |
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