Research Brains... brains... Senses Learning Memory
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What is a hypothesis?
educated guess that is posed as an if-then statement
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What is a neuron?
nerve cells
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What is perception?
The organization and interpretation of sensations
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What is classical conditioning?
Learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a stimulus that naturally produces a behavior
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What is explicit memory?
Knowledge or experiences that can be consciously remembered
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What is a survey?
method of gathering information by distributing questionnaires
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What is a neurotransmitter?
chemicals such as acetylcholine and dopamine
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What is sensation?
Awareness resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ
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What is an unconditioned stimulus?
stimulus that causes an automatic response
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What is semantic memory?
Explicit memory about our knowledge of facts and concepts about the world
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What is naturalistic observation?
method of observation of people in their regular lives, i.e. kids on a playground
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What is the medulla?
part of the hindbrain, involved in heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing (if you hurt me, you DIE!)
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What is absolute threshold?
The intensity of a stimulus that allows an organism to just barely detect it
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What is extinction?
when a conditioned response stops occurring
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What is encoding?
The process by which we place the things that we experience into memory
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What is replication?
the process of repeating an experiment to test for objectivity and accuracy
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What is corpus callosum?
structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain
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What is the difference threshold?
minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli
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What is generalization?
act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seem similar
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What is the spacing effect?
The fact that learning is better when the same amount of studying is spread out over periods of time than it is when it occurs closer together or at the same time
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What is a target population?
the whole group that is the subject of a study
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What is cerebrum
makes possible learning of complex information and abstract thinking
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What is color constancy?
tendency to perceive objects as keeping their color even if changing light alters the appearance of their color
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What is latent learning?
Learning that is not reinforced and not demonstrated until there is motivation to do so
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What is maintenance rehearsal?
repeated repetition of information to help the learning process






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