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Question 1

top-down processing

Answer 1

perceiving things based on one’s prior knowledge

Question 2

bottom-up processing

Answer 2

processing and making sense of new stimuli

Question 3

proactive interference

Answer 3

loss of new info

Question 4

retroactive interference

Answer 4

loss of old info

Question 5

transduction

Answer 5

conversion of one form of energy to another (such as environmental stimuli -> neural signals)

Question 6

sensation

Answer 6

sensory receptors/nerves receive information from environment (five senses), uses bottom-up processing

Question 7

perception

Answer 7

interpretation of sensory info, uses top-down processing

Question 8

primacy effect

Answer 8

first items remembered

Question 9

recency effect

Answer 9

most recent items remembered

Question 10

concrete operations

Answer 10

logical thinking

Question 11

formal operations

Answer 11

philosophical thinking

Question 12

assimilation

Answer 12

incorporation of new info (all four legged animals are doggies)

Question 13

accommodation

Answer 13

alteration of pre-existing info to fit new info (doggies are different than kitties but they both have four legs)

Question 14

afferent neurons

Answer 14

sense stimuli

Question 15

efferent neurons

Answer 15

carry signals away from the CNS to initiate an action

Question 16

yerkes-dodson law

Answer 16

performance increases with arousal only up to a point. after that, performance decreases.

Question 17

theory x

Answer 17

workers must have external rewards in order to motivate work

Question 18

theory y

Answer 18

workers are internally motivated

Question 19

garcia effect

Answer 19

associating a food/drink with nausea via classical conditioning

Question 20

general adaption syndrome (GAS)

Answer 20

body’s response to stress in three phases: alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 21

gardner’s multiple intelligences

Answer 21

linguistic, spatial, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist

Question 22

flynn effect

Answer 22

intelligence is increasing with every generation

Question 23

action potential

Answer 23

a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.

Question 24

basal metabolic rate

Answer 24

rate at which we burn calories while resting

Question 25

autonomic nervous system

Answer 25

composed of sympathetic and parasympathetic

Question 26

absolute threshold

Answer 26

the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time

Question 27

automatic processing

Answer 27

cognitive activities that occur without conscious awareness and require minimal cognitive resources

Question 28

central route of persuasion

Answer 28

focusing and engaging with an argument