Midterm Review

The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles

Psychoactive Drugs are chemicals that change

____ is a cognitive process that initiates with our thoughts and flows down to the senses

sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies through ______

A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur

the ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an US

Agents such as chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus and cause harm

Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

According to ____ to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum %

The underlying meaning of a dream is known as___ according to Freud.

the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli

The widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test _____

Rewarded behavior is likely to recur and punished behavior is less likely to recur ___

The portion of the cerebral cortex that recieves sensory input for touch and body position

theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated

Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli can be defined as ____

The portion of the cerebral cortex that receives information from the visual fields

The portion of the cerebral cortex involved in speaking, muscle movements and making plans

Part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and muscles of internal organs

a learned response to a previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus

the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye containing receptor rods, cones, and neurons

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment is known as

__ believed that we have one general intelligence at the heart of all our intelligent behavior

the minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time

The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

____believed that children construct their understanding of the world while interacting with it

retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray necessary for peripheral vision

a stimulus that unconditionally, naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time

The branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change

the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and stimuli that do not signal an US

The portion of the cerebral cortex including the auditory areas

Large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

_____proposed 3 levels of Moral Reasoning: Pre- conventional,conventional, post-conventional

__ identified 9 independent intelligences

According to Erik Erikson a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy;

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles & glands

A test to design what a person has learned

diminishing of a conditioned response

the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information like objects and events

___ proposed that at each stage of life we face a psychosocial task that needs resolution.

an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers, thus strengthening the response.

The method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with others

A type of learning which one learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events

A test designed to predict a person's future performance ____

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain

The central nervous system includes

The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

Intelligence can be defined as the mental potential to ___

below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness

According to ___ the retina contains 3 color receptors, one most sensitive to red, green, &blue

Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord

The central focal point in the retina around which the eye's cones cluster

Conversion of one form of energy to another

a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

A tone's experienced highness or lowness, depends on frequency

Relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Sternberg identified 3 intelligences: creative, analytical, & _____