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Sensation & Perception
States of Consciousness
Learning Methods
Memory (remember??)
Thinking & Language
100
The process of registering the stimulation of sensory receptors by an external physical stimulus
What is sensation
100
A class of drugs that reduces the activity in the nervous system, such as alcohol, barbiturates, or tranquilizers
What is a depressant
100
Learning to see the difference between two similar stimuli
What is discrimination
100
A trick of the short-term memory to obtain more than 7 elements of memory
What is chunking
100
The capacity to use a finite set to create endless variety of unique combinations of words
What is generativity
200
The process of organizing sensory information to form a meaningful interpretation
What is perception
200
a theory of dreams that suggest that dreams are unconscious wishes and/or conflicts
What is Psychoanalytic theory
200
A consequence that creates an unpleasant state, making behavior less likely to occur
What is positive punishment
200
Recall of your own personal, autobiographical experiences
What is episodic memory
200
Fast, emotionally-led thinking that we use in day-to-day situations
What is intuitive thinking
300
Perception through the use of information in memory to organize incoming sensations is known as ______.
What is top-down processing
300
A state of awareness of the internal and external world, including your subjective experiences
What is consciousness
300
A learned signal that predicts another stimulus is about to occur
What is conditioned stimulus
300
Implicit, non-stated memory for how to do things
What is procedural memory
300
A mental shortcut that may or may not lead to a correct solution
What is a heuristic
400
The interpretation that objects close to you are moving past you faster than objects farther away.
What is motion parallex
400
Thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes that reside outside of awareness
What is unconscious
400
A treatment for phobias that practices relaxation to progressively more feared stimuli
What is systematic desensitization
400
Memory for knowledge of which we are consciously aware; that which we can declare
What is explicit memory
400
A bias in decisions based on the description of the problem
What is framing effect
500
The lowest amount of physical energy that can be detected reliably 50% of the time using a given sense organ
What is absolute threshold
500
The part of your mind that contains material just outside of awareness that is easy to pull into awareness
What is preconscious
500
A consequence that takes away an unpleasant state, making behavior more likely to occur
What is negative reinforcement
500
A structured set of thoughts and presumptions
What is a schema
500
The basic sounds of human language
What is phonemes