Indv 101 Exam 3

Front 1

When there is tissue damage, a special chemical called ____ is released, which stimulates a pain receptor in the tissue

Back 1

Substance P

Front 2

The region of the cortex in which we perceive pain (ouch, that hurts)

Back 2

Somatosensory area

Front 3

The region of the cortex in which we have an emotional response to pain (owwwwwwww!!)

Back 3

Frontal lobes

Front 4

Why might applying pressure at the sight of pain work to reduce the feeling of pain?

Back 4

Since many different sensory receptors synapse at the spinal cord, it competes with the pain signal for registration in the brain

Front 5

What is the periaqueductal grey (PAG)?

Back 5

A structure in the brain, that when stimulated by either pain induced inhibition or opiate induced inhibition, can inhibit pain signals from reaching the brain as effectively

Front 6

The tendency to maintain a balanced or relatively constant internal state is known as what?

Back 6

Homeostasis

Front 7

Sensors in the mouth, intestines, stomach, liver, and brain which signal us to stop eating are known as what?

Back 7

Satiety sensors

Front 8

Rats tend to eat much less and lose a significant amount of weight if what part of the hypothalamus is legioned?

Back 8

Lateral hypothalamus

Front 9

Theories which propose that we are often motivated by the positive goals are known as what?

Back 9

Incentive theories

Front 10

A person's enduring disposition after several hours, days, weeks, or even months is known as their

Back 10

Mood

Front 11

A person's temporary response to a particular stimuli is known as their

Back 11

Emotion/affect

Front 12

Emotions are changeable

Back 12

Cognitive corrigibility

Front 13

Emotions can be persistent and difficult to change

Back 13

Cognitive incorrigibility

Front 14

The common sense view of emotion is that after we perceive a stimulus, ____ comes first and then ____

Back 14

Emotion, physiological arousal

Front 15

The James-Lange theory says that ____ comes first and then ____

Back 15

Physiological arousal, emotion

Front 16

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotions suggests that ____ is simultaneous with ____

Back 16

Physiological arousal, emotion

Front 17

The idea that repeated exposure to something makes a person feel more favorably to it is known as the

Back 17

Mere exposure effect

Front 18

The idea that we are likely to feel emotions that correspond to our facial features is known as

Back 18

Facial feedback hypothesis

Front 19

People tend to be quite bad at ____, which is the ability to predict out own and other people's happiness

Back 19

Effective forecasting

Front 20

What is the type of love marked by powerful and overwhelming longing for one's partner?

Back 20

Passionate love

Front 21

What is the type of life marked by a sense of deep friendship and fondness for one's partner

Back 21

Compassionate love

Front 22

____ are the small number of emotions (supposedly 7) that theorists believe are universal across cultures

Back 22

Primary emotions

Front 23

When a person focuses on some small specific detail that upsets them, while ignoring other details, is known as what?

Back 23

Selective abstraction

Front 24

The theory that suggests performance level is best when arousal level is right in the middle is known as what?

Back 24

Yerkes-Dodson theory

Front 25

The type of learning in which a person learns that one event is associates with another event (stimulus-stimulus learning)

Back 25

Classical learning

Front 26

A stimulus that is neutral at first and when it is presented by itself initially it does not elicit any significant response

Back 26

Conditioned stimulus

Front 27

A stimulus that elicits an automatic response without any necessary training

Back 27

Unconditioned stimulus

Front 28

A response previously associated with a non-neutral stimulus (unconditioned stimulus) that is elicited by a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus) through conditioning

Back 28

Conditioned response

Front 29

An automatic response to a non-neutral stimulus (unconditioned stimulus) that does not need to be learned

Back 29

Unconditioned response

Front 30

The phase during which someone gradually learns to establish a conditioned response is known as what?

Back 30

Acquisition

Front 31

The process of responding less strongly over time to a repeated stimuli

Back 31

Habituation

Front 32

Gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned response after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus

Back 32

Extinction

Front 33

Sudden reemergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay in exposure to the conditioned stimulus

Back 33

Spontaneous recovery

Front 34

The sudden reappearance of a conditioned response that has become extinct when an animal returned to the environment in which it learned it

Back 34

Renewal Effect

Front 35

Displaying a less pronounced conditioned response to conditioned stimuli that differ from the original conditioned stimulus

Back 35

Stimulus discrimination

Front 36

process by which conditioned stimuli similar, but not identical to, the original conditioned stimulus elicit a conditioned response

Back 36

Stimulus generalization

Front 37

Difficulty in establishing classical conditioning to a conditioned stimulus we've repeatedly experienced alone, that is, without the unconditioned stimulus

Back 37

Latent inhibition

Front 38

The idea that we are evolutionarily predisposed to fear certain stimuli more than others is known as

Back 38

Preparedness

Front 39

An apparent conditioned response that actually turns out to be an unconditioned response to the conditioned stimulus

Back 39

Pseudoconditioning

Front 40

An alternative to the polygraph test that relies on the premise that criminals harbor concealed knowledge about the crime that innocent people don't know

Back 40

Guilty knowledge test

Front 41

Psychological drives that propel us in a specific direction

Back 41

Motivation

Front 42

A model proposing that we must satisfy physiological needs and needs for safety and security before progressing to more complex needs

Back 42

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Front 43

Value that establishes a range of body and muscle mass we tend to maintain

Back 43

Set point

Front 44

Intense fear of an object or situation that's greatly out of proportion to its actual threat

Back 44

Phobia

Front 45

The tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement

Back 45

Instinctive drift

Front 46

Theory proposing that emotions are products of thinking

Back 46

Cognitive theory of emotion

Front 47

Discipline that has sought to emphasize human strengths

Back 47

Positive Psychology

Front 48

Phase in human sexual response triggered by whatever prompts sexual interest

Back 48

Desire phase

Front 49

Physical nearness, a predictor of attraction

Back 49

Proximity

Front 50

Sexual attraction to nonliving things

Back 50

Fetishism

Front 51

If a person is binge eating and purging once a week for three months, this is known as

Back 51

Eating disorder NOS- in order to have bulimia, a person must be binge eating and purging twice a week for three months

Front 52

Learning controlled by the consequences of the organism's behavior

Back 52

Operant conditioning

Front 53

In the case of Little Albert, the furry white rat represented the

Back 53

Conditioned stimulus

Front 54

In the case of Little Albert, the loud gong represented the

Back 54

Unconditioned response

Front 55

In the case of Little Albert, Albert's fear following loud noise was the

Back 55

Unconditioned response

Front 56

In the case of Little Albert, Albert's fear followed by the white rat was the

Back 56

Conditioned response