Psych Final

The gate theory of pain emphasizes how which of the following reduces pain?

If a child tries to change a photo on the wall with a remote control, what is she displaying?

When I pair a bell with food and measure salivation, what was the conditioned stimulus?

What did Erik Erikson regard as the main social need of a newborn infant?

Which area of the brain is considered most important for regulating hunger and satiety?

If you want to produce classical conditioning, what procedure should you use?

Operant conditioning is presenting a huge chunk of information at once with minimal reinforcement for correct answers

anyone who is available is a__________ sample

What type of memory loss where you can't form new memories without a loss of old memories.

Operant conditioning: skeletal responses. Classical conditioning: visceral responses.

The cornea and lens distort the shape of certain images and thats why we have optical illusions

What does it mean to say that a particular test has high validity?

In classical conditioning, which of these becomes stronger as a result of training?

A behaviorist would probably avoid?

The concept of working memory means about the same as Procedural memory

Which specialization has the general interest as “changes in behavior over age.”

psychology is defined as?

a _______ which is a clear predictive statement often attempt to explain the observations.

Either the Axon produces an action potential or it doesn't is the "all or none" law of an axon

people from different cultures

Action potential is Either the Axon produces an action potential or it doesn't

same percentage of male /female white /black etc as the whole population

What is the most widely abused drug in our society?

amygdala is a structure of the parietal lobe that responds to anxiety

In which condition do people show impairments of language production, impaired use understanding of prepositions

everyone in population has same chance of being chosen

What lobe of the cerebral cortex is specialized for vision?

Copying clothing of established stars is what kind of learning?