Consciousness
Current information about yourself and your environment.
Conscious level
Your teacher gives you a star for speaking Korean. This is an example of:
Positive punishment
Generalized (or secondary)
Information that is not currently in consciousness but can be recalled to consciousness - memory.
Preconscious
Sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur and eyes move quickly.
REM Sleep
If we eat something and get sick, we do not want to eat it again.
Learned taste aversion OR Garcia Effect.
Examples include caffeine, cocaine, nicotine, methamphetamine
Stimulants
Automatic body processes like heartbeat, respiration and digestion.
What Freud called the underlying meaning of a dream/symbol in a dream.
Latent content
Fixed ratio
When we respond more quickly to questions we have seen before.
Priming
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
Delta waves
You are teaching your dog to high five, spin around, and bark in that order. You are teaching your dog to do what?
Chaining
When you use the same drug over and over again, you need to take larger doses for the same effect.
Tolerance
When you are able to focus on a particular stimulus (e.g. focusing on my voice instead of the noise outside)
Selective attention
Theory that says brains are just interpreting electrical signals or biological processes.
Activation-synthesis Theory
You put on sunscreen to prevent yourself from getting a burn and hurting. (positive/negative reinforcement/punishment)
A rat will never learn to walk backwards; a pig will never learn to jump into a fire.