312 Exam 1 Review

Circle the duck that best describes how you feel about Exam 1

2: According to _______________, there would be no perceptual difference between a teacher losing 10% of their income and the owner of Amazon losing 10% of his income.

• Weber's Law

• Fechner's Law

• Skinner's Law

Match the method with the name

• Method of Adjustment

• Randomly presenting stimuli of varying intensities

• Magnitude Estimation

• Participant increasing or decreasing the intensity of a stimulus

• Method of Constant Stimuli

• Asking participants to rate how intense a stimulus is from 1-10

• Method of Limits

• Researcher increasing or decreasing the intensity of a stimulus

We talked about three things that impact signal detection theory outcomes. Those are the strength of the signal, the amount of noise, and the __________. (only writing one word)

Where do action potentials start?

• Axon Hillock

• Dendrites

• Myelin Sheath

• Axon Terminals

Communication between two neurons is _________.

• Electrical

• Chemical

• Guaranteed

• Due to Sodium

At the start of an action potential, sodium enters the cell, causing it to _____________ and become more positive.

• depolarize

• hyperpolarize

• release potassium

• synapse

Out of the techniques we talked about, _______ is considered to be the most direct measure of brain activity.

• EEG

• fMRI

• MRI

• PET

One similarity between PET and fMRI is that they both have high _______ resolution

• Spatial

• Temporal

• Frequency

• Electrical

Which of the following is NOT a technique used to measure brain activation

• EEG

• fMRI

• MRI

• PET