Intelligence
Ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance reasoning
Emotional intelligence
This kind of memory can hold information for hours or even years.
Long term memory
Absentmindedness is...
a lapse in attention that leads to a memory failure
____ reinforcers satisfy basic biological needs.
Primary
A positive reinforcer is...
when a stimulus is presented, and its presentation increases the likelihood of a behavior
True or False: Intelligence is positively correlated with income and education.
TRUE
Process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored
Retrieval
Encoding
Process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory
A positive punishment is...
when a stimulus is administered, and its administration reduces the likelihood of a behavior
A conditioned stimulus is..
an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response because it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus
Medications that enhance the psychological processes that underlie intelligence
What memory failure is associated with the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
Blocking
Consolidation is...
The process by which memories become stable in the brain
General process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding
Habituation
Wha is the type of learning in which the consequences of an organism’s behavior determine whether the behavior will be repeated in the future
Operant Conditioning
True or False: an individual's genes and environment have an influence on their intelligence
TRUE
After a part of his brain was removed to alleviate seizures, patient H.M. could no longer...
form long term memories.
Semantic encoding is...
Process of relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in memory
Acquisition is...
the phase of classical conditioning when the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus are first presented together
Interval schedules are...
Based on time intervals between reinforcements
What is the theory that task require general ability skills and specific skills related to the task?
two-factor theory of intelligence
This type of memory involves mental time travel
Episodic memory
Serial Position Effect states...
That the first few and last few items in a series are more likely to be recalled than the items in the middle.
What is learning?
Acquisition, from experience, of new knowledge, skills, or responses that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner
Sensitization
Simple form of learning that occurs when presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus