Chapter 1-3 & 5
This is the study of mental abilities and behaviors.
What is psychology?
This is a biological cycle that occurs over a 24 hour period.
What is a circadian rhythm?
Worked with dogs to study classical conditioning/
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
What is a schema?
This is an active system that receives, organizes, alters, stores, and retrieves information.
What is memory?
A study around one person that gives a lot of detail.
What is a case study?
This stage of sleep is when dreaming occurs most often and is most vivid.
What is REM sleep?
The disappearance or
weakening of a learned response
following the removal or absence of the
unconditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
This is the system of rules for combining words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences.
What is syntax?
This is the shortest form of memory.
What is sensory memory (iconic memory to be the most specific)?
The father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Any significant loss of sleep that results in problems of concentration and irritability.
What is Sleep Debt?
Form of learning that focuses on the consequences of a behavior.
What is Operant Conditioning?
This theory of intelligence believes that there are nine types of intelligence ranging from verbal, linguistic, and mathematical to interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
This allows something to stay in short term memory for a longer period of time.
What is rehearsal?
What is Dopamine?
This stage of sleep includes sleep spindles.
What is stage 2 sleep?
This is paired with a unconditioned stimulus to eventually become a conditioned stimulus.
What is a neutral stimulus?
Mental age divided by chronological age.
What is intelligence quotient or IQ?
This is a type of long-term memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior.
What is Procedural/Implicit (non-declarative) memory?
This is the absolute threshold for vision.
What is a candle flame 30 miles away?
These stages of sleep have delta waves.
What is stage 3 and 4 sleep?
This is used to decrease a behavior by adding something negative.
This form of intelligence is acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
This is a type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it-generally results in an exceptionally clear recollection.
What are flashbulb memories?