Sensation & Perception
The physical process during which our sensory organs respond to external stimuli.
What is Sensation?
The IAT is designed to measure this.
What is Implicit Bias (or Unconscious Bias)?
In the context of operant conditioning, effects that increase a behavior are called this.
What are Reinforcers?
Remembering phone digits temporarily until you can write down the digits is this kind of memory.
According to today's required reading, 80% of students do this as their primary study strategy.
What is Rereading?
In signal detection, when a response is given but a signal is not presented.
What is False Alarm?
A type of state that is involuntary and effortless.
What is Low Awareness (or Automatic)?
This is typically the same as the unconditional response.
This kind of memory is reflected by Kim's memory of going to the Wharf with her parents as a child.
What is Episodic?
A strategy in which the same content is spaced out over time instead of crammed into one session.
What is Spaced Practice?
Perception is determined by past experiences with similar stimuli.
What is Top-down Processing?
Mental shortcuts
What are Heuristics?
"Jack confiscates his son Charlie’s video game console to stop him from misbehaving" is an example of this.
What is Negative Punishment?
The information that you remember form this course long after the course is over is this kind of memory.
What is Semantic?
Connecting the material you are learning to what you already know.
What is Elaboration?
________ occurs because rods become bleached in normal light conditions and require time to recover.
The process by which a trait or concept is activated and becomes accessible in memory.
What is Priming?
After conditioning, the response to the CS can be eliminated if the CS is presented repeatedly with the US. This is referred to as what?
What is Extinction?
Retrieval practice strengthens this stage of the memory process.
What is Retrieval?
In this strategy you read the material, attempt to summarize it without looking at the reading, and then review the material you didn't know.
What is Read-Recite-Review?
The phenomenon in which we fail to notice an unexpected object or event when attention is focused on something else.
What is Inattentional Blindness?
"Experiencing fear because sensational news stories seem much more likely to occur than unremarkable (yet more dangerous) activities" is an example of this.
What is Availability Heuristic?
This kind of failure might occur if a student were not paying attention in class to the material.
What is Encoding?
Using tests or quizzes as a learning tool.
What is retrieval practice?