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Great, I've been trying to recreate the experiments of this Russian man and now my dog slobbers every time she hears the doorbell. The name MIGHT ring a bell if you're a fan of Classical Conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Most sleep cycles take this many minutes to go fully through NREM and REM sleep
What is 90 minutes?
This form of conditioning was discovered first
What is classical conditioning?
Sadie has a final exam so she had decided to do 30 minutes of studying everyday for the next 4 days rather than studying 2 hours right before the test. What memory effect is she taking advantage of?
What is the spacing effect?
The decay or fading of knowledge over time is a failure in this stage of memory
What is storage?
From the Latin for "little man", this term is used for the visual representation of how our brain senses the world around us and you'll notice how big certain parts of his body are (hands, lips, tongue) because they're more sensitive to touch
What is homunculus?
This two word term refers to the act of strengthening a behavior by removing a stimulus
What is negative reinforcement?
This frustrating phenomenon occurs when you're certain you know a word but can't quite retrieve it
What is tip of the tongue?
This smallest units of a language that conveys "m"eaning. The word un-break-able has 3 of these and there are thousands in the English language including banana, -s, and -ed.
What are morphemes?
You suddenly stop the use of an addictive substance and begin experiencing negative symptoms because you are in this stage of addiction
What is withdrawal?
You are more likely to remember the first and last items in a list than those in the middle
What is the serial position effect?
"A Million Dreams" is sang by the cast of this musical which tells the story of PT Barnum and the dreams of wealth
What is The Greatest Showman?
What is crystalized intelligence?
the lowest level of a stimulus that can be detected by the human senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It's defined as the smallest amount of energy needed to correctly detect a stimulus half of the time.
What is absolute threshold?