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| what is manifest dream content? |
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| what is latent dream content? |
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| the underlying meaning of a dream (freud) |
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| what are monocular cues and some examples of them? |
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what we use to perceive depth
examples: interposition, relative size, relative height |
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| What is found in the Retina? |
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| it is a spot in the eye that lacks rods and cones |
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| help us see black and white |
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| what is a flash bulb memory? |
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| It is a memory that you can vividly recall because it is emotionally significant to you |
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| How to we process information into our memory? |
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| we encode it into our short term memory, store it in our long term memory, and retrieve the memory later on. |
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| solving a problem by using the longer more precise technique. |
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| solving a problem by using a short cut technique or common knowledge. |
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| when we solve a problem after we spontaneously figure out the answer. (you have an ah-ha moment) |
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| what is observational learning? |
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| it is when we learn from what we see. bobo doll experiment - kids imitated violent behavior that they saw from parents. |
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| putting information together in order to remember it more easily. |
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| a drug that slows you down. example: alcohol |
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| a drug that causes a person to feel more energized. example: cocain |
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| a drug that causes a person to feel less pain. example: heroine |
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| a drug that causes a person to hallucinate. example: LSD |
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| What is positive reinforcement? |
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| giving someone a reward for doing something good. example: give a dog a bone when he pees outside. |
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| what is negative reinforcement? |
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| taking away something bad when someone does something good. example: does not shock a dog when he pees outside. |
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| what is positive punishment? |
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| giving someone something bad when they misbehave. example: give dog a shock every time he has an accident inside. |
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| what is negative punishment? |
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| taking something good away when someone misbehaves. example: does not give dog a bone when he has an accident inside. |
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| what is fixed interval, fixed variable, fixed ratio, etc.? |
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fixed - predictable
interval - time
ratio - number of responses
variable - unpredictable |
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| What is absolute threshold? |
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| absolute threshold. 50% of the time it’s subliminal |
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| has to do with absolute threshold. put paper in back pack, won't feel weight difference. but if you put a heavy textbook in, you can feel the difference. |
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| What is classical conditioning? |
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| when one events effects how you feel about something. |
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