PSY 150A Exam 1

myelin is:

a fatty substance produced by glial cells that coat axons to protect and speed up neural impulse

angel is interested in studying how language development occurs over time in bilingual houses. In order to successfully implement this study she should use:

a longitudinal design

Simon's rabbit gets a treat every night. The treats come in a plastic bag that makes a crinkling sound. When the rabbit hears the bag he runs to the door of his cage to await the treat. One night Simon when Simon is eating chips the rabbit hears the sound of the bag and runs to his cage door. The sound of the bag is the:

conditioned stimulus

Photoreceptors

convert light into electrical signals

When you were 10 years old, you were REALLY into Pokémon. You knew all the characters, their families, and their evolutionary history. However, you quit playing Pokémon when you got to junior high because your friends made fun of you. Now, you can still remember some of the characters, but you can't remember all the details. This is an example of:

decay

punishers

decrease behavior

the trichromatic theory is based on:

discovery of three types of cones for vision

sources of memory loss

encoding failure, decay, amnesia, interference

stages of memory

encoding, storage, retrieval

long-term memory is broken into:

implicit memory (motor skills, habits, classically conditioned refelexes) explicit memory (episodic (events experienced by person) (semantic, facts, gen knowledge)

reinforcers

increase behavior

which hindbrain structure is responsible for heartbeat, breathing, blood pressure, swallowing and coughing

medulla

storage

memory trace (engram)

kelly is grounded by her father until she does her homework what technique is he using to alter her behavior

negative reinforcement

long-term memory

parts, reconstruction

classical conditioning

pavlov, extinction and spontaneous recovery

every time you eat cotton candy you are reminded of the time you went to a carnival with your friend and ate cotton candy until you were sick. In his senario the cotton candy represents:

retrieval cue

Retrieval

retrieval cues, the more specific the better

meta-analysis is

scientists reviewing previous studies instead of doing new research

working memory

short-term, requires selective attention

operant conditioning

skinner, shaping/sucessive approximation

the two major divisions of the peripheral nervous system are:

somatic and autonomic systems

after Paul had a stroke, doctors detected damage to his left frontal lobe in Brocas area. Bc of damage, Paul is most likely to experience difficulty:

speaking fluently

encoding

the processing of information into the memory system

the closer the correlational coeffician to +1.00 or -1.00 means:

the relationship is stronger between variables

Levi met a cute girl on the street. The girl gave Levi her number and Levi is trying to remember the digits until he can write it down when he finds a paper and pencil. Levi is using what type of memory to remember the girl's phone number?

working memory

types of memory

working, long term