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A biological cycle, or rhythm,
that is approximately 24 hours long |
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Term sleep researchers
use to designate stages 1-4 of sleep |
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Russell needs more of the drug he
has been using to get the normal high
he got when he first started.
Russell is experiencing… |
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| A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with hiss boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at the terminal. The therapists suggests that the “terminal” in the dream suggests an unconscious desire to “terminate” his boss. This desire to terminate the boss (if it exists) would be what Freud called…. |
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Many narcoleptic individuals experience
complete loss of muscle tone, which can
cause them to become limp like a rag doll.
Name the phenomenon. |
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| Frist person to describe learning as acquired through classical conditioning while studying the digestive system of dogs. |
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| Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
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| Young Albert is initially not afraid of white rats, but if white rats and loud noises are presented in sequence Albert may learn to fear rats. White rats would be the… |
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As an infant, Stephanie received many injections from the doctor. When she later saw a photographer in a white coat similar to the doctor’s, she started to cry.
This is an example of… |
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Porscha and her husband went out for a nice dinner, where Porscha ordered a diet coke . When she took the first sip, she made a perplexed face and said “That is not a diet coke, it is diet pepsi”
This is an example of… |
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| Blaine was attacked by a goose when he was a child, and developed an intense fear of waterfowl. As he grew up, the fear faded until it was forgotten. Blaine is now in his 20s and recently came upon a flock of geese in the park. The geese gave him a stare and he felt slightly fearful. Blaine’s fear response is an example of… |
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| Small chamber used in operant conditioning of animals that limits the available responses, which increases the likelihood of the desired response. |
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| Thorndike’s law of effect is most closely associated with which operant conditioning principle? |
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A stimulus presented to a person or
animal that decreases the probability of a particular response. |
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| Julie is expected to cut the lawn weekly. Her parents pay her once in a while after she cuts the lawn. Name the reinforcement schedule Julie’s parents use. |
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| Most employees work eight hours per day Monday through Friday. Most employees are paid on a _________ schedule of reinforcement. |
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| Danny has been collecting comic books since he was a child. If you ask him, he can tell you the name of every comic in his collection. However, he usually struggles to remember the names of his new employees at work. Name the concept. |
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| The memory system that contains memories for factual information such as events and definitions. |
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| Exposing people to stereotype-consistent information before meeting with an individual from the stereotyped group is often sufficient to produce stereotypic interpretations of the person’s actions and thoughts. This is an example of… |
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| Rebecca stops after reading two or three paragraphs in her psychology text. She rehearses and thinks about the material she has just read before continuing. The aspect of memory Rebecca is most concerned with is the limited duration of… |
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The process of locating and recovering
information from your memory store. |
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| Context-dependent learning |
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| Your friend is a pilot. You often ask him about flying, but the stories he tells are boring. One day you get to go on a flight with him. Once you are in the air, he shares all kinds of interesting stories. Name the concept. |
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| Name the form of memory that requires conscious attention for encoding, storage, and retrieval. |
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| Type of neuron that becomes active when we engage in observational learning. |
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| It is possible to condition all conditioned stimuli equally well to all unconditioned stimuli. |
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| Audience members at hypnosis demonstrations who are selected to on stage were selected for their…. |
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus
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This area of the brain controls
the circadian rhythm |
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