PSY 322 Exam 1 Questions AND Correct Answers
A Decline of Behaviorism - ✔✔-a controversy over
language acquisition
-Skinner
-argued that children learn language through operant
conditioning
-children imitate the speech they hear
-the correct speech is rewarded
Action Potential - ✔✔-neuron receives signals from
enviornment
-information travels down axon of that neuron to
dendrites of another neuron
Algorithm - ✔✔-guaranteed to solve a problem
-slow but definite result
Amygdala - ✔✔-emotions and emotional memories
,attention - ✔✔-process of concentration on specific
features of the environment or on certain thoughts or
actives
Automatic Processing - ✔✔-occurs without intention
and only uses some of a person's cognitive resources
Axon - ✔✔-a tube filled with fluid that transmits
electrical fluid down
Behaviorism - ✔✔-eliminate the mind as a topic of
study
-instead, study directly observable behavior
Bottom-up Processing - ✔✔-perception may start with
sense
-incoming raw data
-energy registering on receptors
-geons (3 dimensional volumes (legos)
-perceived distance
, -size of image on the retina
Broca's area - ✔✔-in the frontal lobe
-language production is impaired by damage here
Cell Body - ✔✔-contains mechanisms to keep the cell
alive
Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔-3 mm thick layer that covers the
brain and contains mechanisms responsible for most of
our cognitive functioning
Change blindess - ✔✔-if shown two versions of a
picture, differences between them are not immediately,
apparent
Cherry - ✔✔-dichotic listening
-present message A in left ear
-present message B in right ear
A Decline of Behaviorism - ✔✔-a controversy over
language acquisition
-Skinner
-argued that children learn language through operant
conditioning
-children imitate the speech they hear
-the correct speech is rewarded
Action Potential - ✔✔-neuron receives signals from
enviornment
-information travels down axon of that neuron to
dendrites of another neuron
Algorithm - ✔✔-guaranteed to solve a problem
-slow but definite result
Amygdala - ✔✔-emotions and emotional memories
,attention - ✔✔-process of concentration on specific
features of the environment or on certain thoughts or
actives
Automatic Processing - ✔✔-occurs without intention
and only uses some of a person's cognitive resources
Axon - ✔✔-a tube filled with fluid that transmits
electrical fluid down
Behaviorism - ✔✔-eliminate the mind as a topic of
study
-instead, study directly observable behavior
Bottom-up Processing - ✔✔-perception may start with
sense
-incoming raw data
-energy registering on receptors
-geons (3 dimensional volumes (legos)
-perceived distance
, -size of image on the retina
Broca's area - ✔✔-in the frontal lobe
-language production is impaired by damage here
Cell Body - ✔✔-contains mechanisms to keep the cell
alive
Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔-3 mm thick layer that covers the
brain and contains mechanisms responsible for most of
our cognitive functioning
Change blindess - ✔✔-if shown two versions of a
picture, differences between them are not immediately,
apparent
Cherry - ✔✔-dichotic listening
-present message A in left ear
-present message B in right ear
