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| term used by william james to describe the mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts and feelings |
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| an individual's awareness of external events and internal sensations under a condition of arousal, including awareness of the self and thoughts about ones experiences |
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| according to freud, a reservoir of unacceptable wishes, feelings. and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness |
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| daily behavioral or physological cycles that involve the sleep/ wake cycle body temp blood pressure and blood sugar level |
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| the dreams surface content which contains dream symbols that disguise the dreams true meaning |
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| the dreams hidden content its unconcious and true meaning |
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| act on the nervous system to alter conciousness modify perceptions and change mood |
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| the need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect |
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| the psychological need for a drug that causes unplesant withdrawal symptoms such as a physical craving for the drug when it is discontinued. |
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| strong desire to repeat the use of the drug for emotional reasons |
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| psychical or psychological dependence or both to a drug |
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| psychoactive drugs that slow down mental and physical activity |
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| a disorder that involves long term repeated uncontrolled compulsive and excessive use of alachol that impairs health and social relationships |
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| depressant drugs such as nembutal and seconal that decrease the central nervous system activity |
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| depressant drugs that reduce anxiety and induce relaxation |
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| drugs that consist of opium that depress the central nervous systems activity |
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| psychoactive drugs that increase the central nervous systems activity |
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| psychoactive drugs that modify a persons perceptual experiences and produce visual images that are not real |
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| an altered state of conciousness or psychological state of altered attention and expectation in which the individual is unusually receptive to suggestions |
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| systematic relatively permanent change in behavior that occours through experience |
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| a theory of learning that focouses soley on observable behaviors discounting the importance if such mental activity as thinking widhing and hoping |
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| when a netural stumulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response |
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| a stimulus that produces a response without prior learning |
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| unlearned reaction that is automatically elicited by the ucs |
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| the learned response to the conditioned stimulus that occours after the cs-ucs paring |
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| previously netural stimulus that eventually elicits a conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a method of therapy that treats anxiety by teaching the client to associate deep relaxation with increasingly intense anxiety producing situations |
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| a form of associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probablity of the behaviors occourance |
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| a form of problem solving in which the organisim develops a sudden insight into or understanding of a problems solution |
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| as the retention of information or experience over time |
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| the process by which information fets into memory storage |
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| limited capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for only as long as 30 seconds |
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| 3 part system that allows us to hold information temporarly as we perform cognitive tasks |
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| a relatively permenanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of information for a long time |
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| memory process that occours when information that was retained in memory comes out of storage |
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| when we learn something new a neurochemical memory trace forms but over time this disinegrates. time always increases forgetting |
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| the way which information is processed and manipulated in remembering thinking and knowing |
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| mental process of manipulating information mentally by forming concepts solving problems making decisions and reflecting critcally or creatively |
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| being alert and mentally present for ones everyday activities |
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| all purpouse abitlity to do well in cognitive tasks to solve problems and to learn from experience |
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| the extent in which a test measures what it is intended to measure |
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| the extent which a test yields a consistent reproducible measure of preformance |
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| an individuals mental age divided by chronoligical age multiplied by 100 |
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| have high intellegence and supirior talent in a particular area |
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| a condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has a low IQ usually below a 70 on a traditional intellegence test and has difficulty adapting to everyday life |
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| a form of communication spoken, written, or signed that is based on a system of symbols |
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