The diminished responding that occurs when the CS (tone) no longer signals an impending US (food)
What is Extinction
100
The processing of information into the memory system for example, by extracting meaning?
What is encoding
100
A postive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior?
What is Incentive
100
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
What is Cognition
100
psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explantions in place of the real, mor threating, unconscious reasons for one's actions?
What is rationalization
200
the hoplessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when when unable to avoid repeated averisive events?
What is Learned Helplessness
200
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory systems. Including knowledge, skills, and experiences?
What is Long Term Memory
200
A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake?
What is Intrinsnic Motivation
200
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
What is Schema
200
diminishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
What is Repression
300
A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events?
What is Classical Conditioning
300
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event?
What is flashbulb
300
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterened throughout aspects and is unlearned?
What is Instinct
300
Interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing shemas?
What is Assimilation
300
An individual that faces anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage
What is Regression
400
A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.
What is Operant Conditioning
400
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli?
What is Echoic Memory
400
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjecticve experience of emotion
What is Cannon-Bard?
400
(1) the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina. (2) adapting our current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information.
What is Accommodation
400
People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
What is Projection
500
Thorndike's principle that behavior followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely?
What is Law of Effect
500
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list?
What is Serial Postion Effect
500
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli?
What is James-Lange Theory
500
The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
What is Social Learning Theory
500
The ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impluses into their opposite