THEORIES Questions and Answers
1.Social Learning Theory
ANS We learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being
rewarded or punished.
2.Gender-Schema Theory
ANS Children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be
male or female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly.
3.Signal Detection Theory
ANS Predicts how and when we detect the presences of a faint stimulus
amid background stimulation.
4.Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory
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, ANS The retina contains three different color receptors--one most
sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue--which when stimu- lated in a
combination, can produce the perception of any color.
5.Opponent-Process Theory
ANS Opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green,
yellow-blue, white-black).
6.Frequency Theory
ANS The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve
matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch.
7.Place Theory
ANS Links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's mem-
brane is stimulated.
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