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The name for our biological clock and regular body rhythms.
What is circadian rhythm?
100
: Conditioning in which we learn to associate a behavior with a consequence.
What is operant conditioning?
100
The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information.
What is memory
100
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is cognition?
100
An insufficient adjustment up or down from an original starting value when judging the probable value of some event or outcome.
What is an algorithm?
200
Rapid Eye movement sleep; stage where dreams mostly occur.
What is REM sleep?
200
A naturally occurring response that automatically and naturally happens.
What is an unconditioned response?
200
(Processing) Eating.
What is Automatic processing?
200
A thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.
What is a heuristic?
200
Type of neuron located in the frontal lobe near the motor cortex; provide a neural basis for observational learning.
What are mirror neurons?
300
The waves associated with deep sleep
What are Delta Waves?
300
The main psychologist involved with classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
300
The ways in which events, stimuli, and behavior become associated with one another.
What is conditioning?
300
A tendency to search for info that confirms one's preconceptions.
What is confirmation bias?
300
To satisfy our own wishes, file memories, develop and preserve neural pathways
What are reasons why we dream?
400
Type of dream in which one is aware they are dreaming.
What are Lucid Dreams?
400
States that "rewarded behavior is likely to recur."
What is the law of effect?
400
A pioneering researcher of verbal memory and German philosopher who emphasized rehearsal.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
400
He revealed belief perseverance by studying people with opposite beliefs.
Who is Charles Lord?
400
Demonstrated confirmation bias to British students through number sequences.
who is Peter Wason?
500
A split in consciousness that can occur in hypnosis.
What is dissociation?
500
A pioneering researcher of observational learning who most famously observed a child and a Bobo doll.
Who is Albert Bandura?
500
Incorporating misleading info into one's memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
500
A form of thinking in which one draws a conclusion that is intended to follow logically from two or more statements or premises.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
The encoding of meaning, including the meanings of words.
What is semantic encoding?