Semester 1 Review Final

Ability for the brain to change when damaged

Part of NS that controls voluntary movement

A link or association between variables such that one can be predicted from the other

Called the master gland

__ refers to any system that encodes, stores and retrieves information 

An eye blink is an example of

Describes the cerebral cortex

The group in an experiment that is not exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

Distribution of subjects in experiment i/w each has equal chance of being assigned to any group

Negative punishment is sometimes referred to as 

Punishment must be administered __ in order to be effective 

Filters incoming sensory stimuli

You hit the off button on your alarm clock.  the ending of the obnoxious sound act as an  

Which perspective would be most likely to examin humans' genetic makeup

The score that occurs most frequently

Noam Chomsky believed that language was 

While walking down a dark alley, you jump at a loud noise.  This is not considered learning b/c

Carl Rogers was one of the founders of this school of psychological thought.

Initial stage when the neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with US is known as 

Covering the axon; speeds neural transmission

Research strategy i/w neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in

This lobe contains the visual cortex

The statistic that indicates the degree and direction of relationship between variables

B.F. Skinner's early work was inspired by law of effect, which was created by 

Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study

Any variables other than the IVs that seem likely to influence the DV in an experiment

A measure of variability in data

A producer who receives a monthly check is working according to a _ schedule of reinforcement

Responses are reinforced after a varying amount of time, the schedule is 

A condition or event that an experimenter manipulates in order to observe its impact

Descriptive statistic & measure of central tendency; exact halfway point of data distribution

The principles of psychoanalysis were first outlined by:

Controls the pituitary gland

This approach views behavior as driven by powerful inner forces and conflicts from our past.

This lobe controls hearing

Precisely defines ea. variable in study in terms of operations needed to produce/measure them

A larger group from which a sample is drawn and to which the researcher wishes to generalize

The variable that results from the manipulation in an experiment

A guitarist uses _____ to recall how to play the notes of a specific song 

The 3 memory stages, in order of processing are: 

This lobe contains the sensory cortex

Connects the two hemispheres

When the CR no longer occurs in the presence of the CS due to the absence of the UCS 

concepts:

Part of the neuron that receives messages

An example of _ is a person who expects to do poorly on a math test and then does poorly 

Exists when a sample is not representative of the population from which it was drawn

Brief electrical charge traveling down the axon

Which of the following would be most likely to be an unconditioned stimulus?

The group in an experiment that is exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

What's the problem with many foreign language programs offered in the US?

The arithmetic average

____ are consequences that alter the likelihood of behaviors

Adopted children's personality resembles who?

Which perspective would examine humans' genetic makeup and how that may influence behavior?

The capacity of working memory is about ____ items 

H.M. lost the ability to create new memories after his surgery, and is suffering from 

The descriptors "positive and negative" when used in reference to reinforcers mean: 

Getting information out of memory is known as: 

Part of limbic system that processes memory

Research method in which IVs are manipulated and which permits causal interpretation

Your memory of spring break is an example of 

An in-depth, generally subjective, investigation of an individual subject

Occurs when an extraneous variable makes it difficult to sort out the effects of the IV

A statistical procedure that combines the results of many studies

Wilhelm Wundt founded this

Chart that shows the frequency of a group of scores is called

Process absorbs excess neurotransmitters

The concept of __ was denoted by the symbol "g" by Charles Spearman