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9 Weeks S 2011
NATANSON 9 WEEKS EXAM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Humanistic psychology | emphasized free will |
| Behaviorists | studied measurable overt behaviors for objective data |
| Evolutionary psychology | a key motivator of behavior is the drive to spread genetic material |
| Nature influence | evolutionary psychology |
| nurture influence (environment) | behavioral psychology |
| cognitive perspective | concerned with ways we interpret our life experiences |
| distinctive feature of psychodynamic perspective | emphasis on unconscious conflicts |
| different perspectives | often complement one another |
| experiments | only method to assess cause and effect relationships |
| random sample | each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected |
| statistically significant | results probably did not happen by chance |
| experiments determine causal relationships by | isolating the effects of independent variables on dependent variables |
| Correlation | the extent to which two variables vary together |
| More likely | a correlation phrase (it doesn’t imply cause and effect) |
| Institutional Review Boards | evaluate research proposals for ethical issues, Synapse |
| decision making brain area | frontal lobe |
| hunger regulation structure | hypothalamus |
| produce accurate speech | Broca's area |
| regulating arousal | reticular formation |
| closure | incomplete stimulus perceived as whole |
| top-down processing | expectations can effect perception |
| perceptual adaptation | the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field |
| Memories | can be linked with sense of smell |
| connectedness and closure | sensations are organized into meaningful patterns |
| classical conditioning | associative learning of paired stimuli |
| generalization | tendency for the conditioned stimulus to evoke similar responses |
| discrimination | distinguishing between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that does not signal an unconditioned stimulus |
| operant conditioning | associative learning; pairing a response with a stimulus |
| latent learning | learning that occurs, but not seen seen until there is some reinforcement or incentive to demonstrate it |
| continuous reinforcement | reinforcment for each instance or desired behavior; results in quickest learning |
| prolonged viewing of media violence | related to increased rates of violent behavior |
| encoding | first step in the information processing theory of memory |
| short term memory capacity | approximately 7 items |
| cerebellum | procedural knowledge storage: how to ride a bike |
| long-term potentiation | increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation |
| hippocampus | processes explicit (semantic & episodic) memory |
| retrieval cues | clues or prompts that trigger the retrieval of long-term memory |
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