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
