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Flashcards by kellybrickell, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is taste aversion learning? | Conditioning explanation for taste aversions. Easily learned and highly resistant to extinction |
| What are problems with classical conditioning explanations of taste aversion? | One trial acquisition of taste aversion and it is powerful and quickly learned. |
| What is blocking? | Conditioning to a specific stimulus becomes difficult or impossible as a result of prior conditioning to another stimulus. |
| What mathematical model was developed to explain conditioning phenomena like blocking? | The Rescorla-Wagner Model |
| What is the term for when something important happens to an animal, it searches its memory to see what events could have been used to predict the occurence | Biological Explanation |
| Conditioning as a biological adaption means what? | learning is adaptive |
| What is the defining characteristic of evolutionary psychology? | its attention to biology and genetics as sources of explanation for human learning and behavior, development of the human mind, and the development of cultures |
| What are Learned responses that are part of the organisms repertoire? | Autoshaping |
| Autoshaping is remarkable persistent and resistant to what? | Extinction |
| What is an example of autoshaping? | Pecking Pigeons--they will peck no matter what. |
| What results when there is competition between biologically based behavior and a learned response. | instinctive drift |
| Instinctive drift refers to the tendency of organisms to…? | to revert to instinctual unlearned behaviors |
| What is an example of instinctual drift? | The Brelands (the IQ zoo we watched in class) |
| What term refers to Limitations on learning that results from biological factors not from experiences | Biological Constraints |
| What is the general principle of biological constraints? | it will favor behaviors that have survival value and discourage those detrimental to survival. |
| What is a precursor of evolutionary Psychology? | sociobiology |
| What is sociobiology? | the study of the biological determination of social behavior amend all species. |
| What is social behavior? | any form of behavior that requires the interaction of two or more individuals. |
| Alturism among humans is a ____ ordained by ____ | biologically based characteristic ordained by years of successful evolution |
| What is an altruistic act in its purest form? | An altruistic act is one that presents some sacrifice to the doer but results in a net genetic advantage to the species. |
| A procedure where individuals are given info about their biological functioning, they are trained to control/change their functioning. | Biofeedback |
| A specific kind of biofeedback that involves feedback about neurological functioning | Neurofeedback |
| Biofeedback and neurofeedback: alleviate ____; reduces ____; controls _____; and treats ____. | Alleviates migraine headaches; reduces blood pressure and heart rate; controls asthma and urinary incontinence; and treats ADD and learning disabilities. |
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| Emotion, aggression, memory (part of the brain) | Amygdala |
| control of rapid and habitual movements coordination of motor activity; balance (part of the brain) | Cerebellum |
| Growth; regulation of other endocrine gland activity (part of the brain) | Pituitary |
| Physiological functions such as breathing, heart functioning, digestion (part of the brain) | Brain Stem |
| "relay" center for sensory info (part of the brain) | Thalamus |
| Learning and memory (part of the brain) | Hippocampus |
| Arousal center; sleep-wake control (part of the brain) | Reticular formation |
| Regulation of endocrine gland activity relating to growth, sexual behavior, and other functions (part of the brain) | Hypothalamus |
| Sensation, language, speech, thinking, and motor activity (part of the brain) | Cerebral cortex |
| The lower brain stem (part of the brain) | Hindbrain |
| The upper brain stem (part of the brain) | Midbrain |
| Brain stem responsible for regulating waking and sleeping and for controlling general arousal | Midbrain |
| The largest and most complex brain structure | the forebrain |
| The brain stem responsible for basic physiological functions such as respiration and heart rate. | the Hindbrain |
| What is centrally involved in locomotion and balance? | The Cerebellum |
| What is associated with movement? | Nerve fibers |
| What is the forebrain's most important structures? | The hypothalamus, thalamus, and other structures of the limbic system, as well as the cerebrum and cerebral cortex |
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| Sensation, movement, orientation (Lobe of the cerebral cortex) | Parietal lobe |
| Vision (Lobe of the cerebral cortex) | Occipital lobe |
| Motor activity; higher thought processes (Lobe of the cerebral cortex) | Frontal lobe |
| Hearing, language, speech (Lobe of the cerebral cortex) | Temporal lobe |
| Learning depends on the formation of connections among what? | Among neurons in the brain |
| All info enters the brain through what? | Our senses |
| All sensory info except ____ goes through the ____ and then to the appropriate sections of the brain | Except smell goes through the thalamus |
| Important info having to do with nonemotional facts and events goes through the ___ into ____ | Goes through the hippocampus into long term memory |
| important emotional info goes through the ____ for processing into ____ | Thalamus into long term memory |
| Actual processing, examination of info for meaning and associations happens in the ___ | Cerebral cortex |
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