Nervous System 1
... • Only one end of a neuron can make this chemical. So synapses make sure an impulse can only travel in one direction. • Synapses have two other functions: A Resistor- it may take a number of impulses before enough chemical is made to start the impulse in the next neuron. A Junction Box- One neur ...
... • Only one end of a neuron can make this chemical. So synapses make sure an impulse can only travel in one direction. • Synapses have two other functions: A Resistor- it may take a number of impulses before enough chemical is made to start the impulse in the next neuron. A Junction Box- One neur ...
Introduction to Psychology
... mental representation of the layout of one’s environment Example: after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it ...
... mental representation of the layout of one’s environment Example: after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it ...
Module 7 Exam: Learning and Developmental Psychology Infant
... Robert now realizes that his stereotypical view of women as weak is not accurate and so revises his beliefs. He is demonstrating the process of a. maturation. b. assimilation. c. accommodation. d. conservation. e. none of the above ...
... Robert now realizes that his stereotypical view of women as weak is not accurate and so revises his beliefs. He is demonstrating the process of a. maturation. b. assimilation. c. accommodation. d. conservation. e. none of the above ...
UNIT 6: LEARNING
... from the environment. He boasted that he could make any healthy newborn into a beggar, thief, or saint, just by varying the conditioning. Stimulus generalization is the tendency of similar stimuli to elicit similar responses. If you were going to adopt one of the dogs from Pavlov's laboratory, you m ...
... from the environment. He boasted that he could make any healthy newborn into a beggar, thief, or saint, just by varying the conditioning. Stimulus generalization is the tendency of similar stimuli to elicit similar responses. If you were going to adopt one of the dogs from Pavlov's laboratory, you m ...
Learning Case Reading Analyses - Period 8
... Aggression is a very vague idea that psychologists have been trying to study. The main question that researchers are examining is why people engage in acts of aggression. There are three main conclusions: either aggression is biologically pre programmed, an automatic response to experience and situa ...
... Aggression is a very vague idea that psychologists have been trying to study. The main question that researchers are examining is why people engage in acts of aggression. There are three main conclusions: either aggression is biologically pre programmed, an automatic response to experience and situa ...
Learning - Liberty Union High School District
... Biological – nervous system Behaviorist – Stimulus-Response (S-R) Cognitive – Stimulus-Stimulus (S-S) Social – interactions Developmental – changes in a lifetime Evolutionary – changes in species ...
... Biological – nervous system Behaviorist – Stimulus-Response (S-R) Cognitive – Stimulus-Stimulus (S-S) Social – interactions Developmental – changes in a lifetime Evolutionary – changes in species ...
Midterm 1
... A. nerve endings B. gyri *C. sulci D. clusters of fat in the brain Correct Proportion: 0.570175438596491 Though simply a definition question, many of you struggled with this one. Looking at the statistics, it appears that most of you narrowed the response down to gyri and sulci. About 33% of you gue ...
... A. nerve endings B. gyri *C. sulci D. clusters of fat in the brain Correct Proportion: 0.570175438596491 Though simply a definition question, many of you struggled with this one. Looking at the statistics, it appears that most of you narrowed the response down to gyri and sulci. About 33% of you gue ...
10.6: Cell Membrane Potential
... potential (nerve impulse) • A nerve impulse is conducted whenever a stimulus of threshold intensity or above is applied to an axon • All impulses carried on an axon are the same strength ...
... potential (nerve impulse) • A nerve impulse is conducted whenever a stimulus of threshold intensity or above is applied to an axon • All impulses carried on an axon are the same strength ...
Learning
... Pavlov’s Discovery • A conditioned stimulus (CS) – A neutral stimulus (an event) that comes to evoke a classically conditioned (learned) response due to being presented shortly before the US. • In Pavlov’s experiments, the CS was the bell. ...
... Pavlov’s Discovery • A conditioned stimulus (CS) – A neutral stimulus (an event) that comes to evoke a classically conditioned (learned) response due to being presented shortly before the US. • In Pavlov’s experiments, the CS was the bell. ...
Second-Order Patterns in Human Visual Cortex`` on ``Orientation
... stimuli in primary and extrastriate areas, suggesting that the processing of second-order textures is distributed across visual areas rather than specialized within a single cortical region. The similarity in the magnitude of fMRI adaptation across visual areas for first-order stimuli suggests that ...
... stimuli in primary and extrastriate areas, suggesting that the processing of second-order textures is distributed across visual areas rather than specialized within a single cortical region. The similarity in the magnitude of fMRI adaptation across visual areas for first-order stimuli suggests that ...
Document
... or Away from the participant (e. g., “You give the pen to Art”). The response was whether the sentence was sensible or nonsense (e.g., “You give Art to the pen”). Participants indicated sensible by depressing a key with the right index finger, and they indicated nonsense by depressing a key with the ...
... or Away from the participant (e. g., “You give the pen to Art”). The response was whether the sentence was sensible or nonsense (e.g., “You give Art to the pen”). Participants indicated sensible by depressing a key with the right index finger, and they indicated nonsense by depressing a key with the ...
Neural Basis of Emotion - Caltech Division of Humanities and Social
... stimuli only if they were associated with reward, and these neurons showed one trial stimulus-reinforcement association reversal. Another class of neuron conveyed information about whether a reward had been given, responding, for example, to the taste of sucrose, or for other neurons of saline. Thes ...
... stimuli only if they were associated with reward, and these neurons showed one trial stimulus-reinforcement association reversal. Another class of neuron conveyed information about whether a reward had been given, responding, for example, to the taste of sucrose, or for other neurons of saline. Thes ...
Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus
... functional characteristics of neural populations. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are as yet unknown. Here, we consider three models that have been proposed to account for repetition-related reductions in neural activity, and evaluate them in terms of their ability to account for the main ...
... functional characteristics of neural populations. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are as yet unknown. Here, we consider three models that have been proposed to account for repetition-related reductions in neural activity, and evaluate them in terms of their ability to account for the main ...
Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus
... functional characteristics of neural populations. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are as yet unknown. Here, we consider three models that have been proposed to account for repetition-related reductions in neural activity, and evaluate them in terms of their ability to account for the main ...
... functional characteristics of neural populations. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are as yet unknown. Here, we consider three models that have been proposed to account for repetition-related reductions in neural activity, and evaluate them in terms of their ability to account for the main ...
LEARNING AND INFORMATION PROCESSING
... stimulus after a response so that the response will occur more often. Negative reinforcement is the removal of a stimulus after a response so that the response will occur more often. In this terminology, positive and negative don’t mean good and bad. Instead, positive means adding a stimulus, and ne ...
... stimulus after a response so that the response will occur more often. Negative reinforcement is the removal of a stimulus after a response so that the response will occur more often. In this terminology, positive and negative don’t mean good and bad. Instead, positive means adding a stimulus, and ne ...
Lecture 13A
... • It corrects these errors, learning to confine the call to the correct member of each category, and to respond more quickly. • However, even when the vervet produces its first calls, it does not make between-category errors, for example, issue the snake call to a bird, and so on. • That means they ...
... • It corrects these errors, learning to confine the call to the correct member of each category, and to respond more quickly. • However, even when the vervet produces its first calls, it does not make between-category errors, for example, issue the snake call to a bird, and so on. • That means they ...
Reduced BOLD response to periodic visual stimulation
... units of screen refresh time. At 15 Hz, the periodic condition has a constant gap, of 50 ms (3 screen refresh times). The conditions ‘jitter narrow’ and ‘jitter wide’ have a non-standard (i.e. not 50 ms) gap, every alternate gap. ‘Jitter narrow’ allows every other gap to be either 2 or 4 screen refr ...
... units of screen refresh time. At 15 Hz, the periodic condition has a constant gap, of 50 ms (3 screen refresh times). The conditions ‘jitter narrow’ and ‘jitter wide’ have a non-standard (i.e. not 50 ms) gap, every alternate gap. ‘Jitter narrow’ allows every other gap to be either 2 or 4 screen refr ...
Chapter 6: Summary and Discussion
... meaningful concepts of our surroundings and act towards our goals. All our actions are motivated by obtaining reward, be it on the short or longer term, in one form or the other. During this process, through repeated trials and errors, we refine our methods and become more effective in what we do. I ...
... meaningful concepts of our surroundings and act towards our goals. All our actions are motivated by obtaining reward, be it on the short or longer term, in one form or the other. During this process, through repeated trials and errors, we refine our methods and become more effective in what we do. I ...
Ivan Pavlov - BDoughertyAmSchool
... did not have the consent of the dogs. For an experiment to be ethical, there has to be the consent of the person or animal. Obviously, it is impossible to have the consent of an animal, therefore it’s unethical. ...
... did not have the consent of the dogs. For an experiment to be ethical, there has to be the consent of the person or animal. Obviously, it is impossible to have the consent of an animal, therefore it’s unethical. ...