Created the famous classical conditioning experiment centered around dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
100
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is cognition?
200
The three categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens?
200
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?
200
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
What is long-term memory?
200
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
What is language?
300
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
300
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is spontaneous recovery?
300
Where the explicit memory is stored.
What is the hippocampus?
300
The psychologist who believed in inborn universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
400
The major active ingredient in marijuana.
What is THC?
400
The psychologist credited with behaviorism.
Who is John Watson?
400
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
What is effortful processing?
400
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.
What is the availability heuristic?
500
The psychologist who tested a hypnotized woman by putting her hand in ice water.
Who is Ernest Hilgard?
500
Excessive rewards may undermine this type of motivation.
What is intrinsic?
500
Absent-mindedness, transience, and blocking.
What are three signs of forgetting?
500
The number of months at which a baby reaches the "one-word" stage of language development.