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Psych Test II
chapters 5-7
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/01/2007

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EEG
Definition
measures brain waves
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EOG
Definition
measures eye movements
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EMG
Definition
meausures muscle tension
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EKG
Definition
measures your heart
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beta brainwaves
Definition
13-24 CPS- you are awake
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alpha brainwaves
Definition
8-12 CPS- relaxed state
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theta brainwaves
Definition
4-7 CPS- light and medium sleep
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delta brainwaves
Definition
1-3 CPS- deep and deepest sleep
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NREM (non rapid eye movement)
Definition
-80% of the night

-non dream sleep
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Stage 1 of NREM
Definition
-Theta- 5% of the night

-light sleep

-hypnogogic images

-hypnotic jerks
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stage 2 of NREM
Definition
-theta brainwaves- 55% of night sleep

-medium sleep

-myoclonic seizures
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stage 3 of NREM
Definition
-delta brainwaves- 10% of night sleep

-deep sleep

-sleep walking (sonambulism)
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stage 4 of NREM
Definition
-delta brainwaves- 10% of night sleep

-deepest sleep

-night terrors

-sympathetic nervous system takes over
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REM sleep
Definition
-dream sleep

-20% of night
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manifest
Definition
-the actual dream
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latent
Definition
-underlying meaning of the dream
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Little albert UCS
Definition
noise
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little albert UCR
Definition
fear
Term
little albert ns
Definition
rat
Term
little albert CS
Definition
rat
Term
little albert CR
Definition
fear
Term
"Dreams are always...
Definition
... wish fulfillments"
Term
"Dreams are the royal road to...
Definition
...the unconcious"
Term
"Sometimes a cigar...
Definition
...is just a cigar"
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condinsation
Definition
- one object may stand for many things
Term
thorndike
Definition
law of effect (cats)
Term
albert bandura
Definition
social learning
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systematic desensitization step 1
Definition
learn a relaxation procedure
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systematic desensitization step 2
Definition
construct a fear hierarchy
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systematic desensitization step 3
Definition
work up the hierarchy replacing fear with relaxation
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classical conditioning
Definition
-involuntary

-passive
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operant learning
Definition
-voluntary

-active

-behavior that being initiates

-reinforcements (+ and -)

-punishments (+ and -)
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premack principle
Definition
-the more preferred activity is used to reward/reinforce the lesser preferred
Term
memory stage 1
Definition
-encoding (putting into memory)
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memory stage 2
Definition
retention- keeping info in memory
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memory stage 3
Definition
retrieval- bringing out from memory
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reproductive memory
Definition
- memory that needs to be exact
eg: address, formulas, phone numbers
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reconstructive memory
Definition
-main details only
eg: movies, books
Term
Elizabeth Lotus
Definition
eyeswitness accounts-- believed to be reproductive memory but in actuality are in reconstructive memory
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serial position
Definition
in a list of items the first and last are remembered the best
Term
von restorff effect
Definition
the unusual or bizarre item in a series is remembered
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flashbulb memories
Definition
unusually vivid recollections
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internal contextual cues
Definition
related to mood, and your present mood is deepened by your memories
Term
external contextual cues
Definition
if you go back to place where 1st had experience, you will recall more memories of that place
Term
amnesia
Definition
gap in memory

anxiety provoking
Term
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
Definition
info in mind that cannot access
Term
alzheimers
Definition
usually after 65 yrs old

memory desintegrates
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plaques
Definition
coating that interupts memory
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tangles
Definition
interupted pathway
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