Mind Alterations
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Learning the Ropes
Classical Music
100
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods (affects consciousness)
What is a psychoactive drug?
100
Analysis beginning with your senses and working up to the brain
What is bottom-up processing?
100
Determines pitch of a sound
What is frequency?
100
DOUBLE: Learning through the pairing of a response and its consequence versus learning through the pairing of two stimuli (two parts)
What are classical and operant conditioning?
100
The ice cream
What is the unconditioned stimulus?
200
A psychoactive drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions
What is a depressant?
200
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent energies from our environment
What is sensation?
200
Determines loudness of a sound
What is amplitude?
200
The diminishing of a conditioned response
What is extinction?
200
Salivation (with just ice cream)
What is the unconditioned response?
300
A psychoactive drug that excites neural activity and speeds up body functions
What is a stimulant?
300
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
What is perception?
300
The number of breaths you take in a day
What is nearly 20,000?
300
Reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?
300
Mozart
What is the conditioned stimulus?
400
When an individual needs to use a drug to not feel discomfort and distress (two parts)
What is addiction and withdrawal?
400
Analysis that is guided by our experiences and expectations
What is top-down processing?
400
Your chemical senses
What are taste and smell?
400
Tendency for similar stimuli to elicit a similar conditioned response
What is generalization?
400
Salivation (with just classical music)
What is the conditioned response?
500
DOUBLE: A drug that increases the likelihood of both positive and negative sober urges (example: alcohol)
What is a disinhibitor?
500
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
What is absolute threshold?
500
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts
What is kinesthesis?
500
Ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli
What is discrimination?
500
The process of pairing classical music with ice cream to elicit salivation
What is acquisition?
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