Jeopardy
How long does information last in sensory memory?
A fraction of a second to several seconds
Michael, a famous musician, is designing a new apartment that will serve as both his residence and his recording studio. Since the music studio shares a wall with his bedroom, Michael wants to be sure that the recording studio is soundproof. This means that Michael wants to be sure that any sound from the studio is well under his _____________ while he is in his bedroom
Absolute Threshold
Learning that occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events is called...
Associative Learning
States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with other ongoing activities are called
Automatic Processess
The sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system are components of the _________________.
Autonomic Nervous System
_______________ are periodic physiological fluctuations in the body, such as the rise and fall of hormones and accelerated/ decelerated cycles of brain activity, that can influence behavior
Biological Rhythms
Ali is learning how to read Spanish by speaking aloud one letter at a time. Ali is engaging in which of the following?
Bottom-up Processing
The brain and spinal cord make up the...
Central Nervous System
What best represents the fluctuations of body temperature in a 24-hour day
Circadian Rhythm
A woman feels sick every time she travels by air. She associates flying with physical illness and, as a result, hates air travel. She also finds it difficult to watch movies with airplanes or read books about airplanes because they make her uncomfortable. This scenario illustrates the learning process of
Classical Conditioning
Which of the following tells you (the observer) detects a difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time?
Difference Threshold
Multitasking is an example of...
Divided Attention
____________ refers to the process by which information gets into memory storage.
Encoding
____________ in classical conditioning is the weakening of the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is absent.
Extinction
Yousef is attempting to condition his little brother to clean his room for him. Every other time Yousef's brother cleans the room, he lets him play video games with him. What kind of reinforcement schedule is this?
Fixed Ratio
A call center employee working day shift has been asked to work a night shift on Tuesday. During her night shift, she falls asleep at her desk around midnight. What can best explain her behavior?
Her biological clock has become desynchronized
What sleep disorder involves difficulty falling asleep, waking up during the night, or waking up too early.
Insomnia
In the experiment with little Albert conducted by Watson and Rayner, __________________________ was used as an unconditioned response for conditioning Albert to fear a white rat.
Load Noise
What refers to the retention of information over time and how this information is represented in memory
Memory Storage
In the Seinfeld example, George is complaining. The shop owner doesn't like this behavior, so he takes away the soup. What is this considered in operant conditioning?
Negative Punishment
The ___________ System is the body's electrochemical communication system
Nervous
____________ are interconnected groups of nerve cells that integrate sensory input and motor output
Neural Networks
An eighth-grade chemistry teacher plays a video in class to demonstrate the process of conducting a basic experiment in chemistry. Her students are required to watch the video attentively, remember all the steps and safety instructions, and reproduce the same experiment independently. Which of the following is best illustrated when the students reproduce the experiment?
Observational Learning
To get a memory from sensory memory to short term memory, you MUST...
Pay attention to it
The somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system are components of the_______________________.
Peripheral Nervous System
The somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system are components of ...
Peripheral Nervous system
The brain's special capacity for change...
Plasticity
In the Little Albert experiment, ______________ is the conditioned stimulus and ______________ is the conditioned response
Seeing a fluffy animal; being scared.
While walking barefoot on a beach, the physical pain that one experiences when stepping on a jellyfish most accurately exemplifies
Sensation
While walking barefoot on a beach, the physical pain that one experiences when stepping on a jellyfish most accurately exemplifies...
Sensation
You arrive at your friend's apartment for a big party at the end of the college semester. When you first arrive, the music is so loud that it almost hurts your ears. After a couple of hours, even though the music is still as loud, it no longer bothers you or seems loud. This change in your sensations describes the process of
Sensory Adaptation
Yvonne is going for a walk in the snow. At first it is a very miserable experience, but after a while, she doesn't feel so cold. What best explains this?
Sensory Adaptation
Although _____________ is rich and detailed, we lose the information in it quickly unless we use certain strategies that transfer it into other memory systems.
Sensory Memory
________ is a natural state of rest for the body and mind that involves the reversible loss of consciousness.
Sleep
What is true of the role of sleep in brain plasticity?
Sleep enhances synaptic connections between neurons.
Sleepwalking occurs during________________ of the sleep cycle
Stage N3
Ivan, a musician, rehearses playing the guitar for an upcoming live concert to be held in six months. He practices for three hours daily and pays close attention to the sheet music for the guitar while rehearsing. In this scenario, Ivan's rehearsal illustrates
Sustained Attention
The somatic nervous system consists of motor nerves, whose function is to...
Tell your muscles what to do
Andrea is the mother of Leo, a six-month-old child. She wants to introduce vegetables in Leo's diet. As Leo is used to having lentil soup as his evening snack, Andrea prepares lentil soup with vegetables in it and makes Leo taste it. He does not like the taste of the soup and refuses to have it. After that day, he refuses to have even plain lentil soup. In this scenario, which of the following acts as the conditioned stimulus?
The Soup
Amelia has been working as a tea taster for approximately 15 years. She visits tea gardens in the country of Bodonia to grade teas according to their quality and taste. While tasting, she uses her prior knowledge to grade the teas. In this scenario, Amelia is most likely engaged in
Top-Down Processing
In classical conditioning, organisms learn the association between two ...
Two Stimuli
What are cones?
the receptor cells in the retina that allow for color perception.
