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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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Consciousness

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The awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given moment

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2
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Sleep spindles

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Happen in stage 2, interruptions of sharp waves

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3
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Length of the average sleep cycle

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90 minutes

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4
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Unconscious Wish Fulfillment Theory

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Freuds theory that dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled

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5
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Dreams for Survival Theory

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Info related to daily survival is reconsidered and reprocessed

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6
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Activation Synthesis Theory

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The brain produces random electrical energy during R E M sleep that stimulates memories stored in the brain

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7
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Sleep Apnea

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The person has difficulty breathing while sleeping

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1st step of hypnosis

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The person is made comfortable in a quiet environment

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Meditation

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A learned technique for refocusing attention that beings about an altered state of consciousness

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10
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Psychoactive drugs

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Those that influence a persons emotions, perceptions, and behavior

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11
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Biological drug dependence

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The body cannot function without it

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12
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Psychological drug dependence

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People believe they need the drug to respond to daily stress

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13
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Stimulants

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Drugs that have an arousal effect on the CNS

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14
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Depressants

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Drugs that slow down the nervous system

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Hallucinogens

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Drugs that are capable of producing alterations in perception, thoughts, and feelings

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16
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Narcotics

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Drugs that increase relaxation and relieve pain and anxiety

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17
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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in behavior brought by experience

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18
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Habituation

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The decrease in response to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus

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19
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Extinction

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A previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and disappears

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20
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Stimulus Discrimination

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The process that occurs if two stimuli are sufficiently distinct from one another

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21
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Spontaneous Recovery

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The reemergence of an extinguished CS response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning

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22
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Operant Conditioning

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A voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on the responses favorable or unfavorable consequences

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Reinforcer

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Any stimulus that increases the probability that a preceding behavior will occur again

24
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Punishment

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A stimulus that decreases the probability that a previous behavior will occur again

25
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Fixed Ratio Schedule

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Reinforcement is given only after a specific number of responses are made

26
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Variable Ratio Schedule

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Reinforcement occurs after an average number of responses, but the reinforcement schedule in unpredictable

27
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Shaping

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The process of teaching a complex behavior by rewarding closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

28
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Behavior Modification

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A technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones

29
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Cognitive Learning Theory

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Learning that focuses on the thought processes that underlie learning

30
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Latent Learning

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Learning in which a new behavior is not demonstrated until some incentive is provided for displaying it

31
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Observational Learning

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Learning by observing the behavior of another person, or model

32
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Memory

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The process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information

33
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Encoding

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Recording information in a form usable to memory

34
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Storage

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The maintenance of material saved in memory

35
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Retrieval

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Locating material and bringing it into awareness do that it can be used

36
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Atkinson-Shiffrin Model

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  1. Information
  2. Sensory memories
  3. Short term memories
  4. Long term memories
37
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Working memory

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A memory system that holds information temporarily while actively manipulating and rehearsing that information

38
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Primacy effect

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Best remembered are items that come early

39
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Regency Effect

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Best remembered are items presented late

40
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Declarative Memory

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Factual information

41
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Tip of Tongue Phenomenon

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The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows

42
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Recognition

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Individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives

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Recall

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Memory task in which specific information must be retrieved

44
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Explicit Memory

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Intentional or conscious recollection of information

45
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Implicit Memory

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Memories of which people are not consciously aware of

46
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Priming

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occurs when exposure to a word or concept later makes it easier to recall related information

47
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Flashbulb Memories

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Memories of a specific emotionally significant event that are recalled easily and with vivid imagery

48
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Repressed Memories

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Recollections of events that are initially so shocking that the mind pushed them into the unconscious

49
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Interference

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Information in memory disrupts the recall of other information

50
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Retrograde Amnesia

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Memory is lost for occurrences prior to a certain event

51
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Anterograde Amnesia

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Memory is lost for events that follow an injury

52
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Sensory Memory

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Can store an almost exact replica of each stimulus to which it is exposed

53
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In Pavlov’s study the ____ was the bell

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Neutral

54
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Decline

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People who participate in sleep deprivation experiments show a ___ in logical reasoning ability

55
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Chunking

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Grouping of information that can be stored in short term memory

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