personal awareness you have of both internal and external stimuli, and your thoughts concerning those stimuli
What is consciousness?
100
In Pavlov's experiment the unconditioned response to meat powder
What is the salivation?
100
time frame that unrehearsed information is maintained in short term memory
What is 10-20 seconds?
100
16
What is the number Cattel reduced personality traits to?
100
capacity of working memory
What is 7?
200
operates on 24 hour cycle
What is circadian rhythm?
200
reinforcing closer and closer approximations of a desired behavior
What is shaping?
200
working memory with age
What declines gradually?
200
used factor analysis in order to sort the large number of traits initially used in the study of personality
Who is Raymond Cattell?
200
short term memory
What is another name for working memory?
300
shift more apt to have accidents
What is rotating shift?
300
two part; reflexive, voluntary
What is classical conditioning? What is operant conditioning?
300
creating pictures to illustrate key ideas
What is visual imagery?
300
two aspects of an individual's behavior that are central to the concept of personality
What is consistency and distinctiveness?
300
A small enclosure used by psychologists to study learning in which an animal can make a specific response that is recorded while the consequenses are systematically controlled.
What is Skinner Box?
400
less productive shift
What is rotating shift?
400
key to classical conditioning, according to Pavlov
What is stimulus contiguity?
400
the order of basic memory processes in which information enters our memory system and is used later
What is encoding, storage, retrieval?
400
personality traits have been found to reduce the probability of divorce
What are agreeableness and conscientousness?
400
component at work when you use recitation to temporarily hold onto a number
What is phonological loop?
500
brainwaves that have a frequency of less than 4 cps
What is delta?
500
involves a change in behavior or knowledge, due to experience, and is relatively durable
What is learning?
500
linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding
What is elaboration?
500
diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitue target
What is displacement?
500
gradual weakening and disappearence of a conditioned response