Memory
Breaking a phone number into more easily memorable pieces is an example of this.
What is chunking?
This is any stimulus that increases the likelihood of the behavior that led to it.
What is a reinforcer?
These are reactions to behaviors. Additionally, evolutionary psychologists believe these formed as survival adaptations.
What are emotions?
This is at the top of Maslow's pyramid.
What is self-actualization?
This is the type of memory that holds information for hours, days, weeks, and years.
What is long-term memory?
This is the auditory information that stays in our minds for only a few seconds.
What is echoic memory?
This schedule of reinforcement is based on the time intervals between reinforcements.
What is interval schedules?
This theory says that physiological arousal and the experience of emotion occur at the same time.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion?
This is a focus state that involves the loss of awareness of time and the self.
What is flow?
This type of conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response.
What is classical conditioning?
This is the process of storing new information by converting it to mental pictures. It creates a visual and verbal placeholder in your brain.
What is visual imagery encoding?
This is the gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented.
What is extinction?
This states that people are primarily motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
This is the defense mechanism where individuals revert to a more immature, but safer state.
What is regression?
This type of conditioning occurs when the consequences of an organism’s behavior determine whether the behavior will be repeated in the future.
What is operant conditioning?
This is the amount of information that the short-term memory can hold at one time.
What is 7 (plus or minus 2)?
Pavlov conditioned his dogs to salivate in response to a metronome. The dogs salivating to the metronome is an example of this.
What is a conditioned response?
This is the antithesis emotion to disgust.
What is fear?
According to Freud, this is the part of the personality that is pleasure-seeking.
What is the id?
Suzie initially thought her crush was ignoring her, but then she thought that maybe he was just busy. This exemplifies this.
What is reappraisal?
Harold got brain surgery and lost all his memories from before the surgery. This exemplifies this.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Suzie hit her brother because he was being mean. This exemplifies this.
What is positive punishment?
These are the five universal emotions.
What are happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear?
These are the big five personality traits.
What are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism? (OCEAN)
Darwin believes that emotional actions result from unused energy in the nervous system. This is what may result from nervous energy from excitement?
What is laughter?