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the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
What is Empiricism
100
the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
What is memory
100
our awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness
100
a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.
What is learning
100
the scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes
What is biological psychology
200
an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.
What is structuralism
200
the processing of information into the memory system
What is encoding
200
a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized
What is posthypnotic suggestion
200
decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
What is habituation
200
the neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands
What is axon
300
a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function--how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
What is Functionalism
300
activated memory that holds a few items briefly, before the information is stored or forgotten
What is short-term memory
300
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously
What is dissociation
300
the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).
What is behaviorism
300
a fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one sausage-like node to the next
What is myelin sheath
400
the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language). 
What is cognitive neuroscience
400
a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory 
What is working memory
400
REM sleep rapid eye movement sleep; vivid dreams occur
What is REM sleep
400
in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.
What is acquisition
400
chemical messages that cross the gap of the synapse
What are neurotransmitters
500
SQ3R a study method incorporating five steps: Survery, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review
What is SQ3R
500
Echoic memory a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds
What is Echoic memory
500
a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm.Insomnia- recurring problem is falling or staying asleep
What is Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
500
a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. For example, an animal that has learned that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the tone and begin responding to the light alone. (Also called second-order conditioning.)
What is higher-order conditioning
500
a neurotransmitter's reabsorption by the sending neuron
What is reuptake