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| What refers to a diminishing stimulation? |
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| The ability to simultaneously process pitch, loudness, melody, and meaning of a song is... |
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| Sense of smell can evoke? |
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| A mental prepetition that influences what we perceive... |
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| John Watson was the first to consider himself the first... |
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| Pavlov's experiment with the dogs... |
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| Abused children have a different response to an angry face than non-abused children do to... |
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| Process with getting information... |
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| Retention with encoded information over time refers to... |
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| Automatic processing and effortful processing... |
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| Tendency to immediately recall the first and last items instead of the list... |
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| Magical number 7 plus or minus 2 refers to what kind of memory? |
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| What is the loss of memory called? |
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| When an eye witness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened what type of memory is being used? |
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| Words, places, and emotions that trigger our memory of the past is called? |
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| What is the best example of a particular category? |
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| Methodical step by step procedure... |
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| What is the need or desire to get things done? |
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| An aroused motivative state that is caused by a need? |
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| The specific body weight that adults hold over time is? |
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| The level of serotonin in the brain is increased when this is eaten... |
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| We construct perceptions drawing both on sensations coming bottom-up to the brain and on our experience and expectations, which Psychologist call... |
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| Being told information below the threshold... |
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| the amount of energy in a light wave influences our perception of its brightness is known as? |
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| 4 Basic sensations of touch are? |
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| pressure, warmth, cold, and pain |
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| Your sense of the position and movement of your body parts is called? |
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| The spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain. The "gate" is opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers or by information coming from the brain is called? |
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| The 5 senses of taste is? |
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| Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and Umami |
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| An organized whole; enphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes is known as? |
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| Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective,available to either eye alone is known as? |
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| Learning that certain events occur together is called? |
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| The diminshing of a conditioned response is called... |
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| the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response is called? |
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| in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called? |
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| Inside the box, the rat presses a bar for a food reward. Outside, a measuring device records the animal's accumulated responses is known as? |
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| learning by observing others is called? |
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| Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten is called? |
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| The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences. This is called? |
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| a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory is called? |
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| the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage is called? |
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| Organizing items into familiar, manageable units, often occurs automatically is called? |
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| A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event is called? |
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| occurs when new information makes it harder to recall something you learned earlier |
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| a tendency to search for information that supports or preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence |
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| the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set |
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| an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought , as contrasted with explicit, concious reasoning |
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| our spoken, written, or signed words and the wats we combine them to communicate meaning |
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| babbling stage, household language, one-word stage, two-word stage with telegraphic speech, rapid development with complex sentences |
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| a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing |
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| the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
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| standardized, reliable, and valuable testing |
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| the three criteria to make for a widely, accepted psychological test |
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| a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
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| the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organixm to satisfy the need |
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| a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulationof amy aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level |
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| Maslow's Hierachy of Needs |
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| pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active |
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| teenagers who insert penises into vaginas constantly; sometimes called sluts, whores, and douches |
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