Consciousness
Kathleen just woke up from a nightmare where she was falling from a building. Kathleen is in this sleep stage.
REM Sleep
Benji got bitten by a spider. He got really itchy and had an allergic reaction. Now, whenever Benji sees a bug with legs, he automatically gets itchy. This is the conditioned stimulus.
Bugs with legs.
Paul has a big fear of needles. Paul went to the docotor one time and the doctor gave him a vaccine. Since getting the vaccine Paul felt fear going to the doctor. However, for the past five times Paul has went to the doctor, he has not had any vaccines and now he does not feel fear going to the doctor any more. This is an example of _________.
extinction
This type of dual-track memory allows Maisie to make a cake without a recipe.
Implicit Memory
Caleb has been sick for two weeks and has not gotten any better. His parents say it is just a cold, and he will get better, but they are not doctors. Caleb's parents' problem solving is an example of this _____.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Ben is currently asleep. Name the order of the sleep stages Ben should be experiencing.
NREM 1, NREM 2, NREM 3, REM, NREM 2, NREM 3
Little Brady gets a lollipop every time he is a brave boy and goes to the doctor. This type of operative conditioning is known as __________.
Positive Reinforcement
Lindsey is trying to spend less time on her phone to pay attention on studying. She originally tried not using her phone in the library, and then she worked on not using it during class, then she tried not using it when with friends, and now she does not use her phone at all! This is an example of _____.
Generalization
Your exam on Tuesday includes multiple-choice questions; during the exam, you are all using this part of your memory retrieval.
Recognition
Grace's mom does not want her taking public transportation because her mother watches the news every day and sees only sees theft on buses. This is an example of _________.
Availability Heuristic
Katie goes to see a movie in a dark movie theater. During the movie, she gets very sleepy. This concept of consciousness is why Katie gets sleepy.
Her melatonin rises in a darkened room.
Hinman Dining Hall
Vera is a teacher. She gives points to students that demonstrate good behavior. Students can trade in the points at the end of the week for a prize. This is an example of _______.
Token economies
Terry is reciting a poem for class. During class, they can only remember the last seven lines of the poem. This effect is know as _______.
Recency Effect
Cara knows a giraffe is a giraffe becasue they are yellow, have brown dots, and have a very long kneck. This is Cara's ________ of a giraffe.
schema
This sleep disorder causes Marcus, a Freshman in college, to stay up every night because he cannot fall asleep no matter what he does; therefore, he does his homework at night instead.
Insomnia
Stacey is a teacher. She uses attention grabbers such as "stop, look, and listen!" to get her students to stop talking. This type of operative conditioning is known as _____.
Positive Punishment
For every four times Max sits down to do his homework he gets an hour worth of tv time. This schedule of reinforcement is known as ________.
Fixed Ratio
Gracie prepares for her exam by rewriting her notes in the Cornell method after class, as well as by writing flash cards that she reviews every night. These memory strategies are known as ________ and _____.
organization, maintenance
Musical
Maya has a dream about hanging out with someone she sees in class but has never actually talked to before. Her friend Kayla believes she has the dream because she has a class crush. Kayla's depiction of Maya's dream demonstrates this Freudian theory of dream content.
Latent content.
Edwin is a high school teacher. He noticed that many of his students have not been paying attention in class because they are on their phones. In response, Edwin starts collecting phones every day at the beginning of class. This type of operative conditioning is known as _____.
Negative punishment
About once a week Macy gets a cookie after dinner for keeping up good grades. This reinfrocement schedule is called ______.
Variable Interval
Mark was in a car accident. He can't remember how he got into the accident. Right after the accident, he couldn't remember what had happened the month before; it slowly came back to him. This type of amnesia is called _______.
Retrograde Amnesia
In school Jacob only learns one way to solve an addition problem. Jacob is learning this type of thinking.
Convergent