CONSCIOUSNESS
refers to your immediate awareness of mental activity, internal sensations, and external stimuli.
Consciousness
refers to a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of experience.
a group of related mental processes that are involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving information.
Memory
broad term that refers to how we use knowledge to analyze situations, solve problems, and make decisions.
Thinking
biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that activate and direct behavior.
motivation
Sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep throughout the day:
Narcolepsy
process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses
conditioning
transforming information into a form that can be entered into and retained by the memory system
encoding
mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge
cognition
people are motivated to maintain a level of arousal that is optimal—neither too high nor too low.
arousal theory
is a cooperative social interaction in which the hypnotized person responds to the hypnotist’s suggestions with changes in perception, memory, and behavior.
Hypnosis
a process of learning associations between stimuli.
classical conditioning
retaining information in memory so that it can be used at a later time
storage
refers to thinking and behavior directed toward attaining a goal that is not readily available.
problem solving
proposed by Rogers and Maslow
Humanistic Theory
chemical substances that can alter arousal, mood, thinking, sensation, and perception.
psychoactive drugs
reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus
spontaneous recovery
recovering stored information for conscious awareness
retrieval
using a specific rule, procedure, or method (such as a mathematical formula) that inevitably produces the correct solution
algorithms
social rejection by group members
ostracism
brain-wave pattern associated with alert wakefulness
beta brain waves
founded behaviorism
Watson
involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory but being unable to retrieve it.
Tip of the Tongue
Refers to the tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way
functional fixedness
Activates when seeing threatening or fearful faces or when hearing sounds related to fear
Amygdala