Memory
Learning
Brain
Personality
Sensation
100
This is the process of getting information out of memory storarge.
What is retrieval
100
This strengthens a response by presenting a typically pleasurable stimulus after that response
What is positive reinforcement
100
This si the body's speedy electrochemical communication network
What is nervous system
100
The part of the unconscious personality that contains our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed material
What is id
100
This is the smallest amount of energy needed for a person to consciously detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time
What is absolute threshold
200
The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice
What is spacing effect
200
This is the desire to perform a behavior for its own sake, rather than some external reason, and to be effective
What is intrinsic motivation
200
This is the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron
What is synapse
200
The viewing of oneself in a favorable light due to supportive feedback received from interaction with others
What is positive self regard
200
The specialized sensory receptors found in the eyes
What are rods and cones
300
The memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"
What is explicit memory
300
this is the process of watching and imitaing a specific behavior and is thus an important means through which observation learning occurs.
What is modeling
300
The central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and the motor outputs
What is interneurons
300
the part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to us all
What is collective unconcious
300
The stimuli below the level of consciousness that may act upon behavior
What is subliminal stimuli
400
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
What is retroactive interference
400
This is the learning that occurs in the absence of reinforcement but only becomes apperent when there is an incentive to demonstrate it
What is latent learning
400
This is the brains sensory swetchboard located at the top of the brainstem
What is thalamus
400
These theories cognitive-personal factors, our behaviors, and environmental factores interact to shape our personalities
What is social learning theories
400
the tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant unchanging information
What is habituation
500
Thhis is attributing the wrong source of an event we have experienced, heard about, or imagined
What is source amnesia
500
This is the mental picture of ones enviorment
What is cognitive map
500
The brain's capacity for modification as evident in the brain reorganization following damage
What is plasticity
500
This person outlined eight psychosocial stages that every person goes through and that describe the importance of interacting with other people
Who is Erik Erikson
500
The constant movements of the eyes, little vibrations of the eye
What is saccades
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