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| detection of physical energy by sense organs which then send information to the brain |
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| odorless chemical that serves as a social signal to members of ones speicies |
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| What is the tympanic membrane? |
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| What is perception, and why is it important? |
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| the brains interpretation of raw sensory inputs |
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| What is subliminal persuasion? |
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| information that influences you without you being aware of it |
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| change in an organisms behavior of thoughts as a result of experience |
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| what is stimulus generalization |
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| process by which conditioned stimuli similar but not identical to, the original conditioned stimulus, elicit a conditioned response |
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| what is classical conditioning & what was the experiment |
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| a form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. the dog & salivation experiment done by pavlov |
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| what is the variable interval schedule |
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| pattern in which we proved reinforcement for producing the response at least once during an average time interval, with the interval varying randomly |
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| what is the premack principal |
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| principle that a less frequently performed behavior can be increased in frequency by reinforcing it with a more frequent behavior |
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| what are the 3 basic tasks of memory |
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a) encoding- converting information into a form that can be entered into memory
b)storage- somehow retaining information over varying periods of time
c)retrieval- locating and accessing specific information when it is needed at later times |
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| what is procedural or implicit memory |
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| memory for how to do things, including motor skills and habits |
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| explain primary and secondary reinforcers |
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a) primary- secondary enforcers are neutral objects that become associated with primary reinforcers such as a favorite food or drink
b)secondary- reinforcement with things such as money, grades... |
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| what is the triarchtic model |
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| model of intelligence proposed by Robert Strenberg posting 3 distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative |
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| what is "shaping by successive approximation" |
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| conditioning a target behavior by progressively reinforcing behaviors that come closer and closer to the target |
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| what is operant conditioning |
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| learning controlled by the consequences of organisms behavior |
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| what is discriminative stimulus |
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| stimulus associated with the presence of reinforcement |
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| what is context dependent memory |
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| superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches the retrieval context |
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| what is korasoffs syndrome |
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| a serious mental illness, typically the result of chronic alcoholism, characterized by disorientation and a tendency to invent explanations to cover a loss of memory or recent events |
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| what is the weschler adult intelligence scale |
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| most widely used intelligence test for adults today, consisting of 14 subsets to assess different types of mental abilities |
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| what is IQ and what formula is used to obtain it |
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| systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence. divide mental age by chronological age and multiply the resulting number by 100 |
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| what is high order conditioning |
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| developing a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus by virtue of its association with another stimulus |
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| what are the cells in the eyes, and what do they individually do |
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rods- receptor cells in the retina allowing us to see in low levels of light
cones- receptor cells in the retina allowing us to see in color |
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| hints that make it easier for us to recall information |
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| recollection of events in our lives |
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| what is retrograde amnesia |
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| loss of memories from our past |
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| what is the stanford binet IQ test |
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| intelligence test based on the measure developed by binet and simon adapted by lewis german of stanford university |
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| what is top down processing |
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| constructing a mental understanding of a stimulus using our existing knowledge and expectations |
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| explain alzheimers disease |
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| progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, generalized degeneration of the brain. |
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| the process of converting an external energy or substance into neural activity |
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