Consciousness and Learning Board

Consciousness Definitions

100

A person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given time 

Consciousness

200

Theory of sleep proposing that animals and humans evolved sleep patterns to avoid predators by sleeping when predators are most active

Adaptive Theory 

300

long, slow brain waves that indicate the deepest stage of sleep

Delta Waves

400

Theory of sleep proposing that sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body and serves to replenish chemicals and repair cellular damage.

Restorative Theory

500

A cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period

Circadian Rhythm

Sleep Phases

100

How many stages are there in Sleep

Four

200

In this stage your body temperature and heart beat increase to the same levels as if you were walking. Your brainwaves resemble beta waves and your eyes move rapidly under you eyelids 

REM Sleep 

300

The point where your body relaxes, and your brain waves start to slowdown 

Light Sleep

400

In this stage your brainwaves start to resemble delta waves and growth hormones are released from the pituitary gland. The body's lowest level of functioning 

Deep Sleep

500

A stage that your body temperature drops, breathing becomes more shallow, and Heart rate slows down

Sleep Spindles 

Operant Conditioning Defintions

100

Add pleasant stimulus or increase/maintain behavior

Positive Reinforcement 

200

Remove Pleasent stimulus to decrease behavior 

Negative Punishment 

300

Remove aversive stimulus to increase/maintain behavior 

Negative Reinforcement 

400

Add aversive stimulus to decrease behavior 

Positive Punishment 

500

This psychologist developed the idea of Operant Conditioning  

B.F. Skinner 

Reinforcement Schedules

100

Reinforces the first response after a changing amount of times

Variable Interval 

200

Completion of a constant number of responses 

Fixed Ratio

300

Reinforces the first response after a constant amount of time 

Fixed Interval

400

Completion of a changing number of responses

Variable Ratio

500

Reinforce the desired response/behavior every time it occurs 

Continuous Reinforcement 

Reinforcement and Conditioning Practice

100

You get a Paycheck every Tuesday (Reinforcement Practice)

Fixed interval

200

Yanique gets an "A" on an exam that she studied extremely hard for. (Operant Conditioning Practice)

Positive Reinforcement 

300

You start playing the lottery. You win $10 the first time you play. You play 12 more times before you win again. (Reinforcement Practice) 

Variable Ratio

400

Dan receives a 98% on his curved exam during a college class and his classmates refuse to talk to him. (Operant Conditioning Practice)

Negative Punishment

500

A psychologist gives a rat a food pellet each time it pushes a lever in its cage (Reinforcement Practice)

Continous Reinforcement