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35 Cards in this Set
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4 types of brain |
frontal lobe temporal lobe broca's area wernicke's area |
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frontal lobe |
controls personality stability properties of behavior. |
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temporal lobe |
controls basle intellectual emotional and sexual activities. |
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broca's area |
controls movement necessary for speech. |
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wernicke's area |
concerned with comprehending written or spoken language. |
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wernicke-korsakoff syndrone |
brain disorder due to thiamine deficiency and years of alcohol abuse. |
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psychology |
the scientific study of human aid and animal behavior. |
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behavior |
anything that can be measured. |
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control group |
part of the experiment but nothing happens/changes for them. |
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independent variable |
what the experimenter has control over. |
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dependent variable |
results |
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baseline |
measure the behavior before the experiment begins. |
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learning |
a relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience. |
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BF skinner |
opperant conditionins positive reinforcement |
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primary reinforcers |
water food shelter |
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secondary reinforcers |
money praise sex |
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thorndike |
law of effect |
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memory |
the encoding, storage and retrieval of whatever is learned earlier. |
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STM |
last 20-30 seconds |
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LTM |
days/lifetime |
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types of LTM |
semantic episodic procedural |
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semantic |
general facts and information |
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episodic memory |
specific things that have personal meaning to us. |
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procedural |
memory of motor skills |
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Mnemonics |
techniques used to strengthen memory. |
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forgetting |
loss of information already encoding and stored in LTM. |
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amenesia |
disease of memory(due to a loss of whats learned or the inability to form new memories). |
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thinking |
the cognitive rearrangement or manipulation of both information from the environment and the symbols stored in LTM. |
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heuistics |
strategies |
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stimulus generalization |
the greater the similarity of the conditioned stimulus, the greater the response. |
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Alzheimer's disease |
a disease of the brain that causes people to slowly lose their memory and mental abilities as they grow old. |
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milgrim study |
shocking people/ethical standards |
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different fields of psychology |
abnormal psychology-psychopathology biopsychology-brain/neurons nervous system influence thoughts clinical psych-assesment of treatment of mental illness cognitive psych-centered on science how people think/learn |
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types of postive reinforcement |
continuous reinforcement-occurs every time the response is made fixed ratio-occurs after a certain number of responses are made. fixed interval-occurs after certain amount of time passes. |
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law of effect |
throndikes law)the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be a repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated. |
