This is the principle that one sense may influence another.
What is sensory interaction?
100
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
100
It was created by B.F. Skinner and contains levers, food dispensers, lights, and an electrified grid.
What is a Skinner Box?
100
This is the processing of information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
100
This refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is cognition?
200
This is the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of information processing for many functions including vision. This contrasts with the step-by-step (serial) processing of most computers and of conscious problem solving.
What is parallel processing?
200
Cindi prefers to take exams in the late afternoon rather than during the morning, because her energy level and ability to concentrate are better at that time. Her experience most likely reflect the influence of the
What is circadian rhythm?
200
An automatic, involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus.
What is an uncontrolled response?
200
This is when a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.
What is an iconic memory?
200
This is a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.
What is a heuristic?
300
This information processing is guided by higher level mental processes as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.
What is top-down processing?
300
This theory suggest that dreams are mental responses to random bursts of neural stimulation.
What is activation-synthesis theory?
300
A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
What is a fixed-interval response?
300
This is the neural center that is located in the limbic system which helps process explicit memories for storage.
What is the hippocampus?
300
These are the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.
What is syntax?
400
This theory presumes that we hear different pithes because different sound waves trigger activity at different places along the cochlea’s basilar membrane. The brain then determines a sound’s pitch by recognizing the specific place that is generating the neural signal. But this does not explain low-pitched sounds.
What is the place theory?
400
this is promoted by slow-wave sleep.
What is effective memory?
400
This is the person who used classical conditioning to cause dogs to salivate with a ring of a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
400
This is when one incorporates misleading information into one’s memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
This is the hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is linguistic determinism?
500
This is the principle that, to be, perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage.
What is Weber's Law?
500
When cocaine is injected or smoked, it produces a rush of euphoria that lasts 15 to 30 minutes. But the stimulant drug can trigger 8 hours or so of heightened energy and euphoria.
What is methamphetamine?
500
It was created be Edward Thorndike and stated that behaviors followed by a positive consequence are strengthened and more likely to occur and behaviors followed by a negative consequence are weakened and less likely to occur.
What is law of effect?
500
This is the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
500
This is the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions and is an impediment to problem-solving.