Sensation Perception
Learning
Memory
Emotion Motivation
Miscellaneous
100
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive energies from our environment (brain receives input from the sensory organs).
What is Sensation
100
A phenomenon of getting rid of the conditioned response.
What is Extinction.
100
Encoding by the meaning of something (Chunking).
What is Semantic Encoding.
100
Drives, arousal, and hierarchy of motives (hunger, belonging, achievement). A need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal.
What is Motivation.
100
Physiologists who is known for creating a theory for classical conditioning (started with dogs).
Who is Ivan Pavlov.
200
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events (The brain makes sense out of the input from sensory organs).
What is Perception.
200
While Omar was having a cavity filled by his dentist, a few times the drill hit a nerve that had not been dulled by anesthetic. Each time he cringed in pain. Omar now gets anxious each time he sees the dentist. What is the (US, CS, UR, and CR)
What is US= Drill, CS= Dentist, UR= Cringe, and CR= Cringe.
200
Encoding converted into a mental picture (technique used by memory champions [House of Loci]).
What is Visual Imagery Encoding.
200
The roles of arousal, behavior, and cognition. Positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity.
What is Emotion.
200
The principle that the difference threshold is not a constant amount, but a constant proportion that depends on stimuli is known as....
What is Weber's Law.
300
the minimum level of stimulus intensity needed to detect a stimulus half the time (nothing and something).
What is Absolute Threshold.
300
The initial stage in classical conditioning; the phase associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response.
What is Acquisition.
300
Encoding organizing by category (semantic hierarchy).
What is Organizational Encoding.
300
A fixed (rigid and predictable) pattern of behavior that is not acquired by learning and is likely to be rooted in genes and the body.
What is Instinct.
300
Sensory memory for sounds is called _ memory, while sensory memory for visual information is called _ memory.
What is Echoic; Iconic.
400
Response to a stimulus depends both on the person's sensitivity to the stimulus in the presence of noise and on a person's response criterion.
What is Signal Detection.
400
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is Spontaneous Recovery.
400
Semantic and organization encoding are dependent on regions in the _ lobe of the brain, while visual imagery encoding is dependent on activity in the _ lobe.
What is Left; Right.
400
Body before thoughts.
What is James-Lange Theory.
400
Who created a hierarchy of needs/motives on which humans strive to ensure basic needs are satisfied; then they find motives to pursue goals that are higher on the hierarchy.
Who is Abraham Maslow.
500
The context of a stimulus creates a _ _ expectation that influences our perception as we match our _ _ signal against it.
What is Top Down; Bottom Up.
500
What (Operant Conditioning): Gives something good/bad and Takes away something good/bad?
What is PR= give good, P= give bad, NR= take bad, N= take good.
500
It's easier to _ things you learned a long time ago, than it is to _ them.
What is Recognize; Recall.
500
What are the 4 deceptive expressions?
What is Morphology, Symmetry, Duration, and Temporal Patterning.
500
Arousal levels can help performance but too much arousal can interfere with performance.
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law.
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