Psych Exam 2 Flashcards
What is the REM rebound effect?
When your sleep is deprived and you sleep, up to 50% of your REM sleep is made up at that time. REM sleep being the most important stage of sleep.
What is Manifest content?
Actual overt images, general story that the dream seems to be about
What is latent content?
Underlying unconscious material that causes manifest content
What is our maturing brain called?
Pre Frontal Cortex
What was Freud’s idea of dream analysis?
Freud believed that there were certain symbols in our dreams that represented ideas that were embedded in our unconscious. These symbols were often sexual.
What are narcotics and opiates and what are their functions?
Heroin and morphine are examples. They are pain relieving and euphoria inducing.
What are sedatives and what are their functions?
Valium and diazepam are examples. They are depressants and decrease activity in the CNS. Highly addictive and do not cure disorder.
What are stimulants and what are their functions?
Cocaine is an example. They cause excitation and stimulate the CNS. Releases dopamine so they feel good.
What are hallucinogens and what are their functions?
LSD and Marijuana are examples. Inhibit serotonin that occurs during REM sleep so they deprive you of the REM stage of sleep.
What is social learning theory?
A process in which a person learns actions based on the actions of people around them.
What is operant conditioning?
Describes how an organism comes to understand cause and effect between environments and how their own behavior effects that.
What is fixed interval?
Reinforced after a certain amount of time has passed
What is fixed ratio?
Reinforced after a certain amount of behaviours have occured
What is a variable interval?
Reinforce at different variables at time with no particular pattern
What are the two types of reinforcement?
Primary= Water and food (You enjoy them) Secondary= Money (Associated with other things)
What are the 5 things needed for a successful model of behavior?
1) Paying attention 2) Coding the information 3) Retaining the information 4) Being able to do the learned behavior 5)Motivation, having a reason to do it
What is vicarious reinforcement?
Identifying with a model and the reinforcement they get.
What is sensation?
simple awareness of stimuli
What is bottom up processing?
Basic registry of stimuli
What is top down processing?
Organized and come to understand what we have learned
What is transduction?
How sense organs process info into neural activity
What is an absolute threshold?
Minimum value of stimulus that can be detected
What is signal detection theory?
How someone differentiates between a signal and noise
What is subliminal perception?
subject denies sensing a stimulus
