Glossary 1 Flashcards
zygote
fertilized egg
Working memory
Newer understanding of short-term memory.
Adds conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
Shallow processing
Encoding based on the structure or appearence of words.
Shaping
An operent conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behaviour toward closer and closer approximation of the desired behaviour.
Short-term memory
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly
7 +- 2
Stored or forgotten…
sleep
a periodic, natural loss of consciuosness but different from coma, anesthesia and hibernation
sleep apnea
Sleep disorder
- Temporary cessations (upphörande) of breathing during sleep
- Repeated momentary awakening
Social clock
the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood and retirement.
Social psychology
The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.
Social-cognitive perspective
Views behaviour as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits (including their thinking) and their social context.
Somatic nervous system
The division of the peripheral nervous (perifera nervsystemet) system that controls the body’s skeletal muscles.
(skeletal nervous system)
somatosensory cortex
an area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations.
Source amnesia
Also source misattribution
Faulty memory for how, when or where information was learned or imagined.
Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is the heart of many false memories.
Spacing effect
Distributed study = better long-term retention
Opposite to massed study…
Sontaneous recovery
the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
