the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
What is Sensation?
100
a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.
What is learning?
100
all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating,
What is cognition?
200
failing to notice changes in the environment
What is change blindness?
200
Refers to the progression of muscular coordination required for physical activities.
What is motor development?
200
analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information..
What is Bottom-up processing?
200
the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
What is behaviorism?
200
methodical, logical rule or procedure that, while sometimes slow, guarantees success.
What is an Algorithm?
300
the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is Selective Attention?
300
adapting and adjusting one's current understandings to incorporate new info.
What is Accommodation?
300
the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
300
in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally- naturally and automatically- triggers a response.
What is unconditioned stimulus (US)?
300
an obstacle to problem solving in which people tend to search for information that supports their preconceptions.
What is Confirmation Bias?
400
a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
What is Sleep Apnea?
400
both demanding and responsive; set rules, reasoning, open discussion.
What is an Authoritative Parent?
400
to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage .
What is Weber's Law?
400
the tendency,once a response has bee conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
What is generalization?
400
method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
What is an Intelligence Test?
500
a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speed-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels
What is methamphetamine?
500
One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
500
The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors--one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue--which combined can produce the perception of any color.
What is Young-Helmholtz Theory?
500
reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction that does continuous reinforcement.
What is partial reinforcement?
500
Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.