Psychology 100, Exam 1
Action potential a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an
potential is generated by the movement of positively charged
of channels in the axon's membrane
Activation-synthesis theory the theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make
neural signals that fire during sleep
Bandura's bobo doll experiment In this experiment children watched a model attack a doll and t
were put in a room with toys including the same doll and childr
that the kids who watched the model were much more likely to
actions.
Behaviorism The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science th
behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research
today agree with (1) but not with (2).
B.F. Skinner pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything
determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he
use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to stud
reinforcement on pidgeons and rats.
, Psychology 100, Exam 1
Biological perspective A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and c
associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts.
Case study An observation technique in which one person is studied in de
of revealing universal principles.
Classical conditioning A type of learning in which an organism comes to associate sti
stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to p
response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned s
called Pavlovian or respondent conditioning.
Closure Grouping Principle Filling in gaps or missing information when we perceive somet
incomplete.
Conditioned response in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously
conditioned) stimulus (CS).
Conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, a
with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned
Action potential a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an
potential is generated by the movement of positively charged
of channels in the axon's membrane
Activation-synthesis theory the theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make
neural signals that fire during sleep
Bandura's bobo doll experiment In this experiment children watched a model attack a doll and t
were put in a room with toys including the same doll and childr
that the kids who watched the model were much more likely to
actions.
Behaviorism The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science th
behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research
today agree with (1) but not with (2).
B.F. Skinner pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything
determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he
use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to stud
reinforcement on pidgeons and rats.
, Psychology 100, Exam 1
Biological perspective A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and c
associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts.
Case study An observation technique in which one person is studied in de
of revealing universal principles.
Classical conditioning A type of learning in which an organism comes to associate sti
stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to p
response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned s
called Pavlovian or respondent conditioning.
Closure Grouping Principle Filling in gaps or missing information when we perceive somet
incomplete.
Conditioned response in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously
conditioned) stimulus (CS).
Conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, a
with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned
