Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.
What is operant behavior?
100
The retention of encoded information overtime.
What is storage?
100
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is concept?
100
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
What is the mood-congruent memory?
200
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
200
Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli such as food.
What is positive reinforcement?
200
The processing of information into the memory system - for example, by extracting meaning.
What is encoding?
200
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.
What is insight?
200
In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior is follows.
What is a reinforcer?
300
The number of stages of sleep.
What is four?
300
This person abused Little Albert.
Who is John B. Watson?
300
_______ is like a computer's information-processing system.
What is memory?
300
This type of searching is more efficient.
What is heuristic searching?
300
An altered state of consciouness reported after a close brush with death (such as through cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations.
What is a near-death experience?
400
1. To satisfy our own wishes.
2. To file away memories.
3. To develop and preserve neural pathways.
4. To make sense of neural static.
5. To reflect cognitive development.
What are the reasons for dreaming.
400
If the aroma of cake baking sets your mouth to watering, the unconditioned stimulus is:
What is the cake.
400
These were developed by ancient Greek scholars and orators as aids to remembering lengthy passages and speeches.
What are mneumoic devices?
400
You are _______ months old when you start babbling many speech sounds.
What is four?
400
This psychologist demonstrated generalization by attaching miniature vibrators to various parts of a dog's body.
Who is Pavlov?
500
The presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact versus the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.
What is dualism vs. monism.
500
Jason's parents and older friends all smoke but they advice him not to. Juan's parents and friends don't smoke, but they say nothing to deter him from doing so. _______ will be more likely to start smoking.
Who is Jason?
500
We sometimes recall our experiences with snapshots of their best or worst moments because of:
What is the durability of our most vivid images?
500
Either of these two thinking shorcuts can cause us to ignore important information or to underestimate the chances of something happening.
What are representativeness heuristic and availability heuristic?
500
Without _______, there would be no savoring joyful moments past, no guilt or anger over painful recollections.