AP Psychology Midterm
Psychology 1 with Gross at Stanford University
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By: Tommy Haskel
Textbook:
Psychology (Seventh Edition)
Created: 2011-01-24
Size: 74 flashcards
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Psychology (Seventh Edition)Created: 2011-01-24
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Engineering Psychology
Help designers make better equipment using human factors
Empiricism
Knowledge comes from experience and observation
PET Scan
trace glucose measures
MRI
detailed images of the brain
Hindbrain
Medulla, Reticular Formation, Locus Coerules, Cerebllum
Medulla
Redgulates blood pressure, heart rate, breathing
Reitcular Formation
Arousal / Attention
Amygdala
Emotion
Hippocampus
memory
Hypothalmus
drives the 4 Fs (Feeding, fighting, fleeing, fucking)
Superchiasmatic Nuclei
Body Clock
Thalmus
Relays signals to other parts of the brain
Cerebral Cortex
Brain
Motor Cortex
involves voluntary movement
Association Cortex
complex cognitive tasks
Frontal Lobe
Executive, makes decisions
GABA
inhibits the firing of neurons. Causes epilepsy
Serotonin
Mood swings, regulation of sleep. Inhibit intake of it
Dopamine
Deals with happiness
Fluid Intelligence
speed of processing time, decreases with age
Transduction
takes place in the cochlea
Primary Auditory Cortex
receives information from thalamus and performs most complex analysis of sound
Cornea
transparent protective layer, light rays enter
Pupil
light passes through the pupil
Iris
Expands and retracts to let more or less light in. Determines color of eye
Retina
back of the eye
Rods
light sensative, color insensitive. Help to see in dim light
Cones
locates in the retina that distinguishes color
Fovea
Located in the retina where only cones are located. no rods
Trichromatic theory
Specific cones that respond to short medium and long color wavelengths.
Opponent process theory
cones are grouped into red-green, blue-yellow, black white elements.
Synesthesia
Blending of senses that causes people to taste what they are seeing
Pheromones
Chemicals released by one animal and detected by another that shape the second animals behavior
Signal Detection Theory
A model of what determines a persons report that a near threshold stimulus has or has not occurred.
Just Noticeable Difference
The smallest detectable difference
Weber's Law
The smallest noticeable difference is a constant fraction
Perceptual Organization
What things go with what to form an object
Habituation
Adapting to stimuli that does not change
Classical Conditioning
When a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that produces a response until the neutral stimulus produces the response
Spontaneous Recovery
The reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction
Generalization
A conditioned response is elicited by similar stimuli
Discrimination
Respond the same towards similar stimuli ...dogs, rats, rabbits
Biopreparedness
natural tendency for certain events to develop certain condition associations
Law of Effect
If a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by satisfaction, that behavior is more likely to happen the next time the same stimulus is encountered
Primary Reinforcer
basic needs, food and water
Secondary Reinforcer
Money, awards
Behaviorist on Punishment
Be immediate, consistent, physical punishment
Cognitive on Punishment
punishment appropriate and fit crime, understand why they are being punished
Learned Helplessness
learning that responses do not affect consequences no control
Cognitive map
Mental Map mental representation of environment
Observational Learning
learning how to perform new behaviors by watching others
Episodic Memory
memory of an event when you were actually there
Semantic Memory
memory that contains a generalized knowldge of the world
Procedural Memory
memory of how to do things
Implicit Memory
unintentional influence of prior experiences priming
Explicit memory
unintentionally trying to remember something
Short Term Memory
holds 5-9 items lasts 20 seconds
Long Term Memory
can hold unlimited amount of information and lasts forever
Context Dependent Memory
helped or hindered by similarities or differences between the context in which it is learned
State-Dependent Memory
is aided or impeded by a person's internal state
Retroactive interference
forgetting in which new information placed in memory hinders the ability to remember old information
Proacive interference
forgetting because long term memory interferes with new information..cell phone number
Anteriograde Amnesia
loss of memory for any event that occurs after the injury
Retrograde amnesia
loss of memory for events prior to injury
Schemas
generalizations about categories
Representativeness heuristic
judging whether something belongs in a given class ..adult nappers
Availability heuristic
what is available..people play the lottery because they see people win on TV
Dual process theories
quicker easier system tends to take over in complex situations
Artificial intelligence
computers imitate humans
Gambler's fallacy
people think that future events in a random process will be changed by past events
Group polarization
tendency towards extreme decisions by groups
REM sleep
resemble the waking stage but virtual muscle paralysis
Sleep Apnea
people briefly stop breathing
Lucid Dreaming
awareness that a dream is a dream
About this deck
By: Tommy Haskel
Textbook: Psychology (Seventh Edition)
Created: 2011-01-24
Size: 74 flashcards
Views: 43
Textbook:
Psychology (Seventh Edition)Created: 2011-01-24
Size: 74 flashcards
Views: 43
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