Test 2

Question 1

What are the two kinds of consciousness or states

Answer 1

Altered and waking

Question 2

What is the difference between waking consciousness and altered state of consciousness

Answer 2

Waking is when your thoughts organized and you are alert and altered state is when there’s a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity

Question 3

A cycle of bodily rhythms that occurs over a 24 hour period

Answer 3

Circadian rhythm

Question 4

Part of the brain that is responsible for the sleep/wake cycle

Answer 4

Hypothalamus

Question 5

Part of the brain that is responsible for dreaming

Answer 5

Pons

Question 6

Stage one of sleep

Answer 6

Hallucinations and hypnic jerks

Question 7

Stage two of sleep

Answer 7

Sleep spindles

Question 8

Stage three and four of sleep

Answer 8

Delta waves increase from 20 to 50%
Night terrors
Sleepwalking

Question 9

REM sleep

Answer 9

Dreaming/Nightmares

Sleep paralysis

Question 10

The latent content of a dream is what

Answer 10

The hidden Psychological meaning of the dream

Question 11

What is the manifest content of a dream

Answer 11

The literal subject

Question 12

A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice

Answer 12

Learning

Question 13

Learning to elicit an involuntary reflex like response to a stimulus other than the original natural stimulus that it normally produces

Answer 13

Classical conditioning

Question 14

Original naturally occurring stimulus; The food in Pavlov’s dogs

Answer 14

Unconditioned stimulus

Question 15

The automatic in involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus; The salivation to the food in Pavlov’s dogs

Answer 15

Unconditioned response

Question 16

The neutral stimulus

Answer 16

Conditioned stimulus

Question 17

Who’s research is operant conditioning based on

Answer 17

Thorndike and skinner

Question 18

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses

Answer 18

Operant conditioning

Question 19

Who developed the Law of effect

Answer 19

Thorndike

Question 20

Law stating that if an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence it will tend to be repeated in the followed by an unpleasant consequences will not be repeated

Answer 20

Law of effect

Question 21

Operant conditioning happens when

Answer 21

After the behavior

Question 22

And event or stimulus that when following a response increases the probability the response will occur again

Answer 22

Reinforcement

Question 23

Which type of reinforcement is more Resistant to extinction

Answer 23

Partial

Question 24

The reinforcement of simple steps in behavior that lead to a desired more complex behavior

Answer 24

Shaping

Question 25

Learning that remains hidden until it’s application becomes useful

Answer 25

Latent learning

Question 26

Four principles of classical Conditioning

Answer 26

Conditioned Stimulus before unconditioned Stimulus
Condition stimulus and unconditioned stimulus must come very close together in time
Neutral stimulus must be compared with unconditioned Stimulus several times
Condition stimulus must be distinctive

Question 27

Difference between iconic memory and echoic memory

Answer 27

Iconic memory is a visual sensory memory lasting only a fraction of a second and Echoic is a brief memory of something a person has just heard

Question 28

How long are memories stored in the short term memory system

Answer 28

30 seconds or more

Question 29

Difference between recall and recognition

Answer 29

Recognition is easier recall has no external cues

Question 30

The tendency for memory of any kind of information to be improved if for travel conditions are similar to the conditions under which the information was Encoded

Answer 30

Encoding specificity

Question 31

Referring to the retrieval of memories and which those memories are altered revised or influence by new information

Answer 31

Constructive processing

Question 32

What is the time period For the curve of forgetting

Answer 32

One hour

Question 33

Memory problem that occurs when an older information prevents newer information

Answer 33

Proactive interference

Question 34

Memory retrieval problem that occurs when Newer information prevents older information

Answer 34

Retroactive interference

Question 35

Symantic network model

Answer 35

Collins

Question 36

Type of long-term memory including memory for skills procedures habits and conditioned responses they are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior

Answer 36

Non-declarative Implicit or procedural memory

Question 37

A memory that is consciously known such as declarative memory

Answer 37

Explicit memory