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Question 1

shadowing

Answer 1

experimental technique in which subjects repeat speech immediately after hearing it (usually through earphones)

Question 2

language and left hemisphere

Answer 2

experimental technique in which subjects repeat speech immediately after hearing it (usually through earphones)

Question 3

what are broca’s and wernicke’s area connected by?

Answer 3

arcuate fasciculus

Question 4

gambling is on what kind of reinforcement schedule?

Answer 4

variable ratio

Question 5

what age do circadian rhythms form

Answer 5

16 weeks

Question 6

REM behavior disorder

Answer 6

lack the mechanisms to prevent voluntary muscle movements. Thus, an individual with this disorder can experience extensive physical activity during REM sleep,

Question 7

signal detection vs feature detection

Answer 7

signal detection theory-changes in perception of same stimuli depending on internal and external factors

feature detection-detecting color, shape, motion using our visual pathways

Question 8

linguistic realitivity

Answer 8

which postulates that human experience is determined by language, wherein linguistic categories limit cognitive definitions.

Question 9

standard deviation

Answer 9

What is the standard deviation of a normal distribution with a mean of 50 if 68% of the values are between 30 and 70?

They are both 20 away from 50, so SD=20

Question 10

instinctual drift

Answer 10

established habits, learned by operant techniques eventually are replaced by innate food related behaviors

Question 11

proximal vs distal stimulus

Answer 11

distal stimuli are objects and events out in the world about you. proximal stimuli are the patterns of stimuli from these objects and events that actually reach your senses (sensory receptors)

Question 12

psychophysical discrimination testing

Answer 12

directly assess our perception of stimuli in relation to their true physical properties (over or under state size of items)

Question 13

aging does NOT diminish a persons

Answer 13

ability to retrieve general info

Question 14

gestalt- columns

Answer 14

seeing things in columns=

SIMILARITY

Question 15

perceptual experiences that are not relevant to a persons judgment and decision making process, but can still have a biasing impact

Answer 15

context effects

both the context in which stimuli are presented and the processes of perceptual organization contribute to how people perceive those stimuli

Question 16

long term memory

Answer 16

declarative (explicit) vs. procedural (implicit)

declarative- semantic vs. episodic
semantic=general facts
episodic= personal facts/memories

Question 17

critical period/sensitive period

Answer 17

point in early development that can have significant influence on physiological/behavioral functioning later in life