States of Conciousness
Two risk factors that increase the likelihood of harmful effects from marijuana include _____ and _____.
What is age and family history of mental illness?
A smell that triggers a vivid personal memory serves as this type of retrieval cue.
What is a sensory cue?
This principle states that behaviors followed by satisfying consequences are more likely to be repeated.
What is the law of effect?
The abbreviation EQ refers to this type of intelligence.
What is emotional intelligence?
Research that manipulates an independent variable to determine its effect on a dependent variable refers to this design.
What is experimental research?
Stage of sleep characterized by sleep spindles and K-complexes.
What is Stage 2 sleep?
Visualizing information as images or diagrams relies on this encoding process.
What is visual (imagery) encoding?
This process explains why Little Albert feared not only a white rat but also similar stimuli such as rabbits and cats.
What is stimulus generalization?
A mental framework that organizes related concepts is called this.
What is a schema?
A correlation of +1.0 represents this type of relationship.
What is a perfect positive correlation?
Type of narcolepsy characterized by chronically low orexin levels and cataplexy.
What is Narcolepsy Type 1?
This type of long-term memory allows you to ride a bike without consciously thinking about it.
What is procedural memory?
This process occurs when an extinguished conditioned response briefly reappears after a pause.
What is spontaneous recovery?
This decision bias occurs when people rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered.
What is anchoring bias?
This branch of the PNS regulates involuntary processes like heart rate, digestion, and glandular activity.
What is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?
This brain structure, located in the hypothalamus above the optic chiasm, serves as the body's master clock.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
This brain region stores emotional aspects of episodic memories, such as a wedding day.
What is the amygdala?
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This refers to learning that occurs without reinforcement and becomes evident only when needed.
What is latent learning?
A heuristic that relies on examples that come easily to mind, even if inaccurate, is called this.
What is the availability heuristic?
This type of variable represents particular sets or groupings, like gender or favorite color.
What is a categorical variable?
Long-term untreated OSA increases risk of this cardiovascular outcome.
What is hypertension and cardiometabolic burden?
The phenomenon in which old information disrupts the learning of new information is called what kind of interference.
What is proactive interference?
This reinforcement schedule produces high and steady response rates and is the basis for gambling behavior.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
Thinking that generates multiple potential solutions to a problem is called this.
What is divergent thinking?
This illusion demonstrates that the brain uses linear perspective to judge size, causing identical lines to appear different in length when placed over converging depth cues.
What is the Ponzo illusion?