Consciousness
The study of how things appear to the conscious person is called:
Phenomenology
_____ is the process of maintaining information in memory over time.
Storage
Travis trains a rat to press a lever to receive sugar pellets. What type of conditioning is Travis utilizing?
Operant conditioning
The world record for staying awake is about _____ hours.
264
The brain waves associated with deep sleep are called _____ waves.
Delta
Approximately how many items can short-term memory hold?
Seven
Jane drinks alcohol because it reduces her anxiety. Jane's drinking is being maintained by:
Negative reinforcement
Thalia has no clue that she has unconscious hostile urges to act aggressively against her boss. This is an example of:
Repression
Consciousness integrates information from all of the bodily senses into a coherent whole, a property of consciousness termed:
Unity
A fast-decaying store of auditory information is referred to as _____ memory.
Echoic
A(n) _____ schedule is based on the number of responses needed to achieve reinforcement.
Ratio
Learning that takes place largely independent of awareness of both the process and the products of information acquisition is called:
Implicit learning
Sleep paralysis typically occurs when people awake during which stage of sleep?
REM
Remembering the what, where, and when information about personal events that occurred in your life is a recollection made possible by _____ memory.
Episodic
A parent spanked a child for misbehaving, and the misbehavior stopped. By definition, the spanking served as a _____ for the misbehavior.
Positive punishment
A well-established effect of hypnosis is that some people who are susceptible to hypnosis can experience a reduction of pain, which is more effective than many anesthetics. This phenomenon is known as:
Hypnotic analgesia
A common sleep disorder where the sleeping person stops breathing for a brief period is known as:
Sleep apnea
Long-term memory can be broken up into two broad types: memory that requires conscious recall, referred to as _____ memory, and memory that does not require conscious recall, or _____ memory.
explicit; implicit
Nine-month-old Albert cried when a large steel bar was struck with a hammer while he viewed a white rat. In this acquisition phase, the white rat was the:
Conditioned stimulus
Consciousness can be described as consisting of four basic properties, which are:
intentionality, unity, selectivity, and transience.