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the awareness of internal and external stimuli
1.your awareness of your external events 2.your awareness of your internal sensations 3.your awareness of your self as the unique being having these experiences 4. your awareness of your thought's & experiences |
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| constant flow (WILLIAM JAMES) |
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| needs, wishes, and conflicts that lie below the surface of conscious awareness (FREUD) |
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| electroencephalograph (EEG) |
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| a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp |
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| line tracings that summarize the rhythm of cortical activity |
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| 13-24cps alertly engaged, normal waking thought |
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| 8-12cps deep relaxation, blank mind, meditation |
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| periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning, organisms have internal "biological clocks" that somehow monitor the passage of time |
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| are 24 hr biological cycles found in humans and many other species, influential in the regulation of sleep |
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| suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) |
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| small structure in the hypothalamus that sends signals to the nearby pineal gland whose secretion of the hormone melatonin plays a key role in adjusting biological clocks (where the central pacemaker is located) |
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| ignoring circadian rhythms |
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| sleep quality suffers, fatigue, sluggish,irritable |
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| realigning circadian rhythms |
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| small doses of melatonin, bright light illumination, if workers move thru progressively later starting times at work |
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| record muscular activity & tension |
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| records the contractions of the heart |
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| a brief transitional stage of light sleep (1-7 mins) breathing and heart rate slow muscle tension and body temp decline, alpha waves give away to theta waves, can be easily awakened |
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| consists of sleep stages 3 &4 during which low frequency delta waves become prominent (reach slow wave in less than an hour and remain there for roughly 30mins) |
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| rapid eye movements, a "deep" stage of sleep, irregular breathing and pulse rate, muscle tone is extremely relaxed, high frequency beta waves, associated w/ dreaming, dreaming is most frequent and memorable during this stage 20% (periods get progressively longer peaking at 40-60mins) |
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| consist of stages 1-4, which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements, relatively little dreaming and varied EEG activity 20% (periods get progressively shorter) |
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| sleep 6-8 times in 24 hrs, often exceeding 16 hrs of sleep, REM accounts for 50%, gradually declines to 30% in the first year |
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| partial sleep deprivation, most americans chronically suffer from this, contributes to a large proportion of traffic accidents |
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| deprived of REM sleep, when deprived ppl will slip into REM more often, same in slow-wave |
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| REM & SW contribute to firming up learning that takes place during the day |
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| refers to chronic problems getting adequate sleep (most common) 1. difficulty falling asleep, 2. difficulty remaining asleep 3. persistent early-morning awakening, Treatment-sedatives, benzodiazepine medications |
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| a disease marked by sudden & irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods, .05% of pop, Treatment-stimulants |
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| involves frequent, reflexive gasping of air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep (sometimes 100's of times a night) 2% of women, 4% of men, Treatment-surgery or drug therapy |
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| somnambulism or sleep walking |
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| occurs when a person arises & wanders about while remaining asleep ( in first 2 hrs of sleep in slow wave) last 15 secs - 30mins , prone to accidents, safe to awaken a sleepwalker |
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| relatively mundane,classic sources of internal conflict, self-centered, daily concerns,thoughts we try to supress, external stimuli experienced while dreaming |
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| dreams dont hold any significance in waking life |
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| dreams are view as important sources of info about oneself, about the future, or about the spiritual world, (dream recall is better) |
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| Freud's theory of dreaming |
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| Cartwright proposed dreams provide an opportunity to work thru everyday problems |
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| proposes that dreams are side effects of the neural activation that produces "wide awake" brain waves during REM sleep |
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| a systematic procedure that produces a heightened state of suggestibility, may lead to passive relaxation, narrowed attention, enhanced fantasy 1. anesthesia 2. sensory distortions and hallucinations 3. disinhibition 4. posthypnotic suggestions & amnesia |
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| no change in EEG patterns, produces a normal state of consciousness in which suggestible ppl act out the role of a hypnotized subject, effects have been duplicated by nonhypnotized ppl, subjects are often acting out a role |
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| hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness |
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| doubtful role playing can explain everything(surgery w/o anesthesia), changes in brain activity consistent w/ their reports of hypnosis, creates a dissociation of consciousness |
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| a splitting off of mental processes into 2 separate simultaneous streams of awareness |
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| refers to a family of practices that train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental processes under greater voluntary control, go into alpha & theta waves, potentially leads to beneficial physiological state, helps reduce stress |
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| a specially assigned sanskrit word that is personalized for each meditator |
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| transcendental meditation (TM) |
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| supposed to sit in a comfy position w/ eyes closed and silently focus on a mantra, some believe it involves an altered state of consciousness "pure consciousness" |
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| chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning (narcotics,sedatives,stimulants, hallucinogens, cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy) |
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| or opiates, are drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain, ex: heroin,morphine, codeine, demerol, methadone, sufficient dosages produce and overwhelming feeling of euphoria |
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| are sleep-inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system activation and behavioral activity ex: barbiturates-seconal, non-barbiturates-quaaludes..ppl generally consume larger doses than prescribed, produce euphoria similar to drinking, loosened inhibitions |
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| drugs that tend to increase central nervous system activation and behavior activity ex:amphetamines(speed), cocaine(crack), caffeine, nicotine |
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| speed, synthesized in a pharmaceutical lab, produce buoyant , elated, energetic, feeling accompanied by increased alertness |
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| natural substance that comes from the coca shrub |
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| consists of relatively pure chips of cocaine that are usually smoked |
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| methamphetamine, a crystalline powder that can be snorted of injected |
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| a diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most by prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience ex: LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, produce euphoria, increased sensory awareness, and distorted sense of time, can produce nightmares-bad trip |
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| the hemp plant from which marijuana, hashish, and THC are derived |
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| a mix of dried leaves, flowers stems, and seeds |
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| comes from the plants resin |
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| the active chemical ingredient in cannabis, an be synthesized for research purposes |
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| encompasses a variety of beverages containing ethyl alcohol ex: wine, beer, distilled spirits, heavy drinking produces euphoria that temporarily boosts self esteem, side effects-severe impairment,mood swings, quarrelsomeness |
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| a compound drug that is related both to amphetamines and hallucinogens, became popular in the 90's at raves, short-lived high, feel warm, friendly, euphoric, sensual, insightful, and empathetic but alert and energetic ,, side effects-increased blood pressure, muscle tension,and sweating, blurred vision, insomnia, and transient anxiety |
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| factors influencing drug effects |
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| age,mood,motivation,personality,previous experience w/ the drug, body weight, and physiology,dose, potency, method of administration, setting in which drug is taken, expectations of the user |
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| refers to the progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug as a result of continued use |
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| mesolimbic dopamine pathway |
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| virtually all abused drugs eventually increase activity in this particular neural pathway |
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| exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness, common w/ narcotics, sedatives, and alcohol |
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| withdrawal from heroin, barbiturates, and alcohol |
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| fever, chills, tremors, convulsions, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea and severe aches and pains |
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| withdrawal from stimulants |
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| leads to a more subtle syndrome marked w/ fatigue, apathy, irritability, depression and disorientation |
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| any drug can be fatal if you take enough,depressants carry the greatest risk, many are a result of lethal combos of drugs, respiratory system stops producing a coma, then death.. w/ stimulants-heart attack, stroke or cortical seizure |
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| direct effects of drug use |
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| damage to nasal membranes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems, liver damage, ulcers, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, neurological disorders, lung , head and neck cancers |
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| indirect effects of drug use |
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| dont eat or sleep properly, increased risk of accidental injuries, impair driving ability, infectious diseases (AIDS) |
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| implicated in cases of stroke, heart attack, seizures, heat stroke, and liver damage, sleep disorders, depression , hostility,subtle long term effects in cognitive functioning |
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| consists of the plot of a dream at the surface level |
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| refers to the hidden or disguised meaning of the events of the plot |
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| any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience |
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| involves learning associations between events that occur in an organisms environment |
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| irrational fears of specific objects or situations |
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| a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus (IVAN PAVLOV) |
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| dog was trained to salivate to a tone |
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| a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response w/o previous conditioning |
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| an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs w/o previous conditioning |
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| is a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response |
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| is a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs b/c of previous conditioning |
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| trial in classical conditioning |
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| consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli |
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| refers to the initial state of learning something |
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| stimulus are contiguous if they occur together in time and space |
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| the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency, the consistent presentation of the CS alone w/o the UCS leads to this |
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| the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus, however the response will be weaker |
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| occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus responds in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus (Little Albert-JOHN B WATSON) |
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| basic law governing generalization |
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| the more similar new stimuli are to the original CS, the greater the likelihood of generalization |
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| occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus does not responding the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus |
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| basic law of discrimination |
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| the less similar the new stimuli are to the original CS, the greater the likelihood (and ease) of discrimination |
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| higher-order conditioning |
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| in which a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus |
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| a form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by there consequences (BF SKINNER) |
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| demonstrated that organisms then to repeat those responses are followed by favorable consequences |
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| occurs when an event following a response increases an organisms tendency to make that response |
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| a small enclosure in which an animal can make a specific response that is systematically recorded while the consequences of the response are controlled |
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| send forth (voluntary response) |
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| reinforcement contingencies |
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| are the circumstances or rules that determine whether responses lead to the presentation of reinforcers |
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| creates a graphic record of responding and reinforcement in a skinner box as a function of time , rapid response -steep slope, slow response-shallow slope |
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| the formation of a new response tendency |
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| the reinforcement of closer approximations of a desired response, necessary when the organism doe not on its own emit the desired response |
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| refers to the gradual weakening and disappearance of a response tendency b/c the response is no longer followed by reinforecment |
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| occurs when an organism continues to make a response after delivery of the reinforcer for it has been terminated |
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| are cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences of a response |
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| responding increases in the presence of new stimulus that resembles original discriminative stimulus |
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| are events that are inherently reinforcing b/c they satisfy biological needs |
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| secondary or conditioned reinforcers |
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| are events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated w/ primary reinforcers |
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| a specific pattern of presentation of reinforcers over time |
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| occurs when every instance of a designated response is reinforced |
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| intermittent reinforcement |
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| occurs when a designated response is reinforced only some of the time |
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| the reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses |
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| the reinforcers is given after a variable number of nonreinforced responses (slot machines) |
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| the reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval has elapsed |
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| variable interval schedule |
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| the reinforcer is given for the first response after a variable time interval has elapsed, the interval length varies around a predetermined average |
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| tend to generate steadier response rates and greater resistance to extinction than their fixed counterparts |
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| tend to produce more rapid responding rates than interval |
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| occurs when a response is strengthened b/c it is followed by the presentation of rewarding stimulus |
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| occurs when a response is strengthened b/c it is followed by the removal of an aversive( unpleasant) stimulus |
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| an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation |
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| an organism acquires a response that prevents some aversive stimulation from occuring (why phobias are hard to extinguish) |
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| occurs when an event following a response weakens the tendency to make that response |
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| occurs when an animal's innate response to tendencies interfere w/ conditioning processes (raccoon & coins) |
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| conditioned taste aversions |
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| taste-nausea associations |
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| learning that is not apparent from behavior when it first occurs (rats learned map but only showed it w/ motivation) |
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| occurs when an organism's responding is influence by the observation of other who are called models (ALBERT BANDURA) |
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| 4 key processes in observational learning |
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| attention, retention, reproduction, motivation |
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| studies have shown exposure to this increases the likelihood of physical & verbal aggression and aggressive thoughts and emotions in both children and adults (Bandura's bobo doll experiment) |
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| a systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of principles of conditioning Steps: specify target behavior,gather baseline data, design your program, execute & evaluate your program |
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| a written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behavior modification program |
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| consists of efforts to transfer the emotion attached to a UCS to a new CS (CC is advertising, politics & business) |
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| involves forming a memory code |
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| involves maintaining encoded info in memory over time |
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| involves recovering information from memory stores |
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| involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events (critical to the encoding of memories) |
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| relatively shallow processing that emphasizes the physical structure of the stimulus |
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| emphasizes what a word sounds like; naming or saying (perhaps silently) the word |
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| emphasizes the meaning of verbal input; thinking about the objects and actions the words represent |
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| is linking a stimulus to other info at the time of encoding |
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| the creation of visual images to represent the words to be remembered |
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| hold that memory is enhanced by forming both semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall |
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| preserves information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually a fraction of a second, allows the sensations of visual pattern, sound, or touch to linger for a brief moment, gives you additional time to try to recognize the stimuli |
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| a limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed info for up to 20secs, lost in 10-20secs, can only store about 7 items at at time |
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| the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about information |
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| a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit (letters FBI-NBC-CIA-IBM) |
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| baddeley's model of working memory (4 stages) |
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| phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive system, episodic buffer |
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| when you used recitation to temporarily hold a phone # |
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| permits ppl to temporarily hold & manipulate visual images |
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| controls the deployment of attention, switching focus of attention and dividing attention as needed |
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| temporarily, limited capacity store that allows the various components of working memory to integrate into & serves as an interface between working and long-term memory |
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| is an unlimited capacity store that can hold info over lengthy periods of time |
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| are unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events (become less detailed and less accurate over time) |
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| an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event |
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| consists of nodes representing concepts, joined together by pathways that link related concepts |
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| when ppl think about a word, their thoughts naturally go to related words |
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| connectionist or parallel distributed processing PDP models |
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| assume that cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks |
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| tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon |
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| the temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that is just out of reach |
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| stimuli that help gain access to memories ex: hints, related info, partial recollections |
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| occurs when participant's recall of an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading postevent info |
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| the process of making inferences about the origin of memories |
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| occurs when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source |
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| consonant-vowel-consonant arrangements that do not correspond to words |
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| graphs retention and forgetting overtime (results are most forgetting happens very rapidly after learning, easier to remember things with meaning) |
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| refers to the proportion of material retained |
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| the length of time between presentation of materials to be remembered and the measurement of forgetting |
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| requires participants to reproduce information on their own w/o any cues ex: essays, fill in the blanks |
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| of retention requires participants to select previously learned info from an array of options ex: multiple choice, true/false, matching |
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| of retention requires a participant to memorize info a second time to determine how much time or effort is saved by having learned it before |
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| you may have never inserted it in your memory in the first place, due to lack of attention |
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| simply saying the words to yourself (ineffective encoding) |
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| proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time (in sensory & STM) |
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| proposes that people forget info b/c of competition from other material |
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| occurs when info impairs the retention of previously learned info (occurs between original learning & retest of that learning) |
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| occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new info (rooted in learning that comes before exposure to test material) |
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| encoding specificity principle |
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| states that the value of a retrieval cue depends on how well it corresponds to the memory code |
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| the tendency to forget things one doesn't want to think about |
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| refers to keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious (FREUD) |
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| a person loses memories for events that occurred prior to the injury |
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| a person loses memories for events that occur after the injury |
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| hippocampal & parahippocampal regions |
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| critical for many types of long-term memory, in medial temporal lobe memory system |
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| medial temporal lobe memory system |
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| long-term memory, one of the first areas to sustain significant damage in the course of Alzheimers disease, plays a key role in the consolidation of memories |
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| a hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory, this is done to memories in the hippocampal region |
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| localized neural circuits |
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| unique, reusable pathways in the brain along which signals flow |
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| can facilitate or impair memory |
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| in the brain may be necessary for the formation of memories |
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| alterations in synaptic transmissions at specific sites |
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| declarative memory system |
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| handles factual information, depends on conscious, effortful processes, more vulnerable to forgetting, in medial temporal lobe & far flung areas of the cortex with which it communicates |
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| houses memory for actions, skills, conditioned responses, and emotional memories, largely automatic, take little effort and attention, doesn't decline much over time, uses cerebellum and amygdala |
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| made up of chronological or temporally dated, recollections of personal experiences, allows one to reexperience the past (autobiography like) |
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| contains general knowledge that is not tied to the time when the information was learned (encyclopedia like) |
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| involves remembering to perform actions in the future |
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| involves remembering events from the past or previously learned information |
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| are strategies for enhancing memory |
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| refers to the continued rehearsal of material after you first appear to have mastered it |
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| the serial-position effect |
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| occurs when subjects show better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list than for items in the middle |
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| involves forming a mental image to items to be remembered in a way that links them together |
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| involves taking an imaginary walk along a familiar path where images of items to be remembered are associated with certain locations |
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| the tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out |
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| when a visual stimulus produces a brief visual memory trace (1/4 of a sec or less), adds continuity to our perception of the world |
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| when an auditory stimulus produces a brief auditory memory trace (2 secs or less) helps us understand spoken language, adds continuity |
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| eidetic (photographic) memory |
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| can see an image and then project the exact same image on a blank screen for at least 30secs, typically in children, but goes away in adolescence, (rare in adulthood) |
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| prevents accumulation of garbage in LTM, the workbench of consciousness, where we do much of our thinking, rehearsal buffer and eventual transfer into LTM |
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| simple visual judgement, basically maintenance rehearsal. Is DOG printed in capital letters? |
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| acoustic judgement, Does DOG rhyme with small? |
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| semantic judgement, Does the word fit into the sentence. I saw a DOG in the pond. |
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| make associations between things, give examples |
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| he underwent surgery for epileptic seizures, had his hippocampus removed, produced anterograde amnesia, still had his LTM from b4 the surgery, STM was fine, couldn't move STM to LTM, moment to moment consciousness, procedural memory fine, episodic memory gone |
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| video clip, musician guy, got sick and lost his STM, wrote in a journal |
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| motorcycle accident, left him w/ brain damage, semantic memory ok, procedural memory ok, episodic memory Not ok |
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| illusory memories of personal events that never happened |
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| association that derives from hearing or seeing other's reactions, watching/hearing other ppl's bad experience |
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| the CR gets weaker to stimuli that are less and less similar to the original CS |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder |
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| a person experiences a very frightening event, later anything that resembles that event causes fear reaction |
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| humans are predisposed to develop some phobias and not others b/c avoiding them had real survival value |
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| assumed to cause external pain (rats-light & buzzer) |
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| assumed to cause internal pain (rats-sweetened water) |
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| Edward Thorndike's dissertation question |
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| discovered animals learn by trial and error (cat pulled lever to get out of box to get to food, quicker each time) |
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| linking series of actions that lead to reinforcement |
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| support of cognitive factors in operant conditioning |
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| latent learning, insight learning, observational learning |
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| bobo doll experiment (bandura) |
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| concluded children learn aggression thru watching it on tv, even more so if the aggression is shown to be rewarded |
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| 1959, went 8 days w/o sleep, experienced sleep deprivation psychosis after 4 days, hallucinations & delusions in 90min intervals same as dreams, brain activity would go into microsleep even tho awake, slept for 24 hrs afterwards, he was changed-fired & divorced |
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| 1 sec. bursts of EEG activity (sleep spindles) and large slow waves (K complexes), deeper muscle relaxation |
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| sleep recharges the battery enabling recovery from the day's physical, emotional and cognitive demands, explains deep sleep early in the night(restoration important) |
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| circadian (evolutionary) theory |
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| sleep evolved to keep us inactive when food was unobtainable or predators were numerous, animals that are easy prey while sleeping dont sleep much, animals who dont have to worry about predators sleep alot |
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| horrific dream images, occurs during stage 4, sit up, run around, scream, sweat, cry, difficult to wake up, no sleep paralysis, just images not plot, dont remember them, more common in children (esp. boys) |
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| REM sleep behavior disorder |
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| occurs during REM sleep, muscles dont become paralyzed, injury to pons, have mobility to act our their nightmares and may do so in violent ways |
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| characteristics of ppl who are susceptible to hypnosis |
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| have vivid frequent fantasies, high in visual imagery, high on absorption, except/willing to be hypnotized |
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| Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale |
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| making a series of suggestions & counting how many the person actually performs, score 0-12 |
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| Multiple Personality Disorder |
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| 2 or more independent personalities w/in same person, one personality is unaware/partially aware of the other, unique behavior patterns and memories |
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| 1.occurrence of severe trauma at about age 5, 2. high hypnotizability 3. new personality has reinforcement value -repress the trauma by escaping into another personality |
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| the purported ability to perceive events in ways that cannot be explained by know sensory capacities |
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| the study of ESP or other psi phenomena |
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| clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition,psychokinesis |
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| perceiving objects obscured from view, can "sense" things |
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| reading someone's thoughts, psychic reading |
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| moving physical objects through mental effort |
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| coincidence, poorly conducted experiments, chance, fraud |
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