Transcript Final Jeopardy 2

Perspectives
and Methods
Biological Basis
of Human
Behavior
Sensation and
Perception
Learning
Memory
Cognition
Perspectives
and Methods
Biological
Basis of
Behavior
Sensation and
Perception
Learning
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What is a case
study?
Research technique
in which one person
is studied in depth
What is correlation?
AND
What is the most
important thing to
remember about
correlation?
Extent to which 2
things are related
Correlation does NOT
equal causation!
What is natural
selection?
Traits that contribute
to survival will be
passed on to
succeeding
generations
Perspective that
focused on the function
of conscious
experience
Functionalism
What is an independent
variable?
Dependent?
Independent: thing that is
manipulated to see if there is
a change in the depend.
variable
Dependent: thing that is
influenced by the
independent variable
A brief electrical
charge that travels
down the axon of the
neuron
Action Potential
What is your frontal
lobe responsible for?
Planning and
judgment
Motor cortex
The “recharging phase”
when a neuron, after
firing, cannot generate
another action potential
Refractory Period
Part of the brain
responsible for
emotions like fear
and anger
Amygdala
Hormone that is
responsible for
releasing strength and
increasing endurance
during stressful
situations
Epinephrine
The process of
organizing and
interpreting sensory
information
Perception
Part of the eye that works
with the iris to control the
amount of light that enters
the eye
Pupil
Trace the path of
sound as it goes
through your ear
Ear canal, tympanic
membrane, ossicles,
oval window, cochlea,
auditory nerve
Kinesthetic v.
Vestibular senses
Kinesthetic: general
orientation of limbs
Vestibular: orientation
in space (upside down,
spinning, etc)
Monocular depth cue
that determines depth by
noting that parallel lines
appear to converge in
the distance
Linear Perspective
Process in which an
organism produces
the same response to
two similar stimuli
Generalization
Who is responsible
for the BoBo doll
experiments?
Albert Bandura
What is negative
reinforcement?
Anything that increases
the likelihood of a
behavior by removing
an undesirable event or
state
ID the US;UR;CS;CR
for Pavlov’s
experiment
US: Meat Powder CS: Tuning Fork
UR: Drooling
CR: Drooling
Interval schedules deal
with…
Ratio schedules deal
with…
Interval: time that has
passed by
Ratio: number of times
something is done
Method of retrevial
used by essay, fill-inthe blank, and short
answer questions
Recall
Retrieval method
used by multiple
choice tests
Recognition
Part of your memory
you are aware of –
often called “working
memory”
Short-term memory
What is implicit
memory? What
part of the brain
processes these
memories?
Memories of tasks
and skills
Cerebellum
What is the
misinformation
effect? Who did
research on this?
Incorporating
misleading info into
one’s memory
Elizabeth Loftus
Typical best
example of a
concept
Prototype
What is the
difference between
a phoneme and a
morpheme?
Phoneme: smallest
unit of sound
Morpheme: smallest
unit of sound with
meaning
What is intelligence?
Ability to learn from
experience, solve
problems, and use
knowledge to adapt to a
new situation
What is the
difference between
achievement and
aptitude tests?
Achievement: Tests that attempt to
measure what the test-taker has
accomplished
Aptitude: Tests that attempt to
predict the test-taker’s future
performance
What is validity?
Extent to which a test
measures or predicts
what it is suppose to