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| What is divided consiousness? |
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| A state of consiousness that involves performing more than one tast that demands some level of attention. |
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| What is your circadian rythym? |
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| The pattern of fluctuations in bodily processes that occur regularly each day. |
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| In which stage do you spend the majority of your sleep time? |
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| How many times do sleep cyles repeat and how many cycles occur per night? |
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They occur every 90 minutes.
You have four to five cycles per night. |
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| What are reasons that investigators proposed for the function of sleep? |
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| Protection and survival, energy conservation, consolidation of newly formed meories, and restoration of bodily processes |
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| What would be effected if you were sleep deprivation? |
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| Reaction time, concentration, memory, and academic performance. |
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| Impaired control over the use of a drug |
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| What is the drug used if there is a reduction of the central nervous system? |
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| What is the paradoxical effect of nicotine? |
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| Though it's a stimulant there is mental calmness and relaxation. |
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| Among teenagers who begin smoking, about what proportion will eventually die of smoking-related causes? |
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| Which hallucinogens derive from natural substances and have been used by Native Americans for religious purposes? |
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| Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is the psychoactive chemical in which drug? |
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| What can help a person develop healthier speeping pattterns? |
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| Maintaining a regular sleep schedule, exercising regularly, limiting intake of caffeine, and establishing a regular bedtime routine. |
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| A relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience. |
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| What is a neutral stimulus? |
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| It does not elicit an unconditioned response |
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| When a conditioned response will weaken and eventually disappear if the conditioned stimulus is presented in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Stimulus generalization occurs when the conditioned... |
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| Response is displayed following exposure to stimuli that resembes the conditioned stimulus. |
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| What is an example of stimulus discrimination? |
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| Little Albert being conditioned to fear a rat and eventually coming to fear anything white and fluffy. |
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| Wht is opeant conditioning also known as? |
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| What usually happens when there are negative reinforcers? |
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| They make it more liekely that behavior will be repeated. |
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| What method is used in shaping? |
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| Successive approximations |
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| The "tokens" in a token economy are... |
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| Learning that occurs without apparent reinforcement and is not revealed in performance whet it occurs |
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| What is the mental representation that rats can make of a maze? |
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| What is another term for Modeling or vicarious learning? |
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| What is the oder of processing in memory? |
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| Encoding, storage, retrieval |
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| What is semantic encoding? |
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| Memory encoding that is based on meaning |
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| Stimulus associated with original learning that helps jog one's memory |
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| What is context-dependant memory? |
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| When people have superior recall for material if they are in the same physiological or psychological condition as when they learned it. |
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| What is the capacity of a person's short-term memory? |
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| What is the three-stage model? |
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| This suggests taht long-term memory is organized in terms of an elaborate arrangement of associated concepts. |
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| Flashbulb memories compared to other long term ones are... |
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| More vivid and just as inaccurate. |
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| What is true about eyewitness testimony? |
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| It's often flawed and full of errors. |
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| What does the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve suggest? |
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| Forgetting occurs quickly at first and then slows down. |
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| What is the serial position effect? |
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| Peopel remember the first and last things on a list bettern than the middle ones. |
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| Encoding failure occurs when... |
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| Retrieval encoding cues are missing |
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| What are neuronal networks? |
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| Memory circuits int he brain taht consist of complicated networks of nerve cells |
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| Processes semantic and episodic memories? |
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| The state of awareness of ourselves and the world around us. |
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| Suggest that hypnosis is a phenomenon in which one's consiousness divides or splits. |
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| What is slassical conditioning? |
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| learning in which a perviously neutral stimulus becomes capable of triggering a reflexive response. |
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| What is a conditioned emotional reaction? |
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| An acquired fear response |
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| Memory system that allows one to hold and mulll over information in one's mind for brief periods of time. |
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| The process of breaking a large amount of information down into smaller pieces to make it earier to recall. |
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