VOCAB
The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.
Perception
What is an example of an animal's absolute threshold that is far superior to that of humans?
Who was the first to test classical conditioning on a dog using food and a tuning fork?
Ivan Pavlov
Memory that involves events that are shocking or emotional.
Flashbulb memory
At what age can children utter single words?
1 year or 12 months or 365 days
Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation.
Social Support
The Nerve that carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain.
Olfactory Nerve
What is an example of sensory adaptation?
John B Watson and Rosalie Rayner attempted to condition an 11-month-old infant named __________ to fear laboratory rats.
Albert
What vitamin is essential for maintaining healthy nerve cells?
Vitamin B12
Thinking about thinking is known as _____________.
Metacognition
When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives.
Conflict Situations
The sense of movement and body position.
Kinesthetics
The most common kind of color deficiency is being able to see the difference between shades of _________ and _______________.
Reds and Greens
Conditioning in which desirable behavior is reinforced with valueless objects, which can be accumulated and exchanged for valued rewards is called ___________ economy.
Token
Short term memory without rehearsal usually lasts about _________ seconds.
20
I visual, mental representation of an event or object.
Image
____________ or ___________ response is the body's immediate reaction to stress.
Fight or Flight
A learning procedure in which associations are made between a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Pain that lasts for months or years is called _____________ pain.
Chronic
Taste Aversion
Fading away of memory over time.
Decay
Who believed children learned to produce speech through operant conditioning?
BF Skinner
Most of the stress we undergo comes from _____________________ relationships.
interpersonal
Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence.
What is the "Gate Control Theory of Pain"?
Lessening the pain by shifting our attention somewhere else.
Learning by imitating others is called ____________.
Modeling
A system for remembering that involves repeating information like when remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.
Maintenance Rehearsal
Daydreams and fantasies are examples of ______________ thinking.
Undirect
A coping strategy that refers to the combined personality traits of control, commitment, and challenge that help us reduce the stress we feel.
Hardiness
Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure.
Sense of taste is known as ______________.
Gustation
If a student routinely earns D's in class despite hours of studying, they may decide that studying is useless and stop trying altogether. This occurrence is called ______________.
Learned helplessness
Drug use and severe stress can cause this type of memory loss.
Amnesia
The study of the MEANING of language.
Semantics
Hassles