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States of Consciousness
Learning
Memory
Thinking
Language
100
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
100
Organizing terms into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
100
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
100
James had difficulty recognizing that land diving was a sport because it failed to resemble his ________ of a sport.
What is prototype?
100
The word “chimps” contains ________ phoneme(s) and ________ morpheme(s).
What are 5 and 2?
200
Recurring problems in falling asleep or staying awake.
What is insomnia?
200
Positive, constructive, helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior.
What is prosocial behavior?
200
Confusing the source of information.
What is misinformation?
200
In attempting to find and purchase high-quality clothes, Dorothy tells herself that the most expensive brands are the best. Dorothy’s self-reminder demonstrates the use of what?
What is a heuristic?
200
In the English language, adjectives are placed before nouns as in “red shoes.” This illustrates an English language rule of what?
What is syntax?
300
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
300
An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior torward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
300
The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
What is semantic encoding?
300
Consumers are more likely to choose a product that is said to be effective when informed that it has a 94 percent success rate than when told it has a 6 percent failure rate. This best shows the impact of what cognitive concept?
What is framing?
300
Exposure to language during a critical period is beneficial for effectively establishing the settings of a child’s what?
What is language acquisition device?
400
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
What is narcolepsy?
400
In classical conditioning. Is the originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus,comes to trigger a conditioned response.
What is conditioned stimulus?
400
Events in the past may have aroused a specific ______ that later can prime us to recall its associated events.
What is emotion?
400
When her teacher failed to see that Anna had her hand raised for a question, Anna began to think her professor was unfriendly. Even after she learned that the teacher’s limited vision kept him from seeing her raised hand, she continued to think the teacher was unfriendly. Anna’s reaction best shows what?
What is belief perseverance?
400
Learning a spoken language during childhood ________ (facilitates/inhibits) the learning of sign language during adolescence. Learning sign language during childhood _______ (facilitates/inhibits) the learning of a spoken language during adolescence.
What are facilitates and facilitates?
500
The major active ingredient in marijuana that triggers a variety of effects including hallucinations.
What is THC
500
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
What is retroactive learning?
500
A newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
What is working memory?
500
An attorney explains to a jury that her client works full-time, supports her family, and enjoys leisure activities. Eventhough none of this information is related to the case, it is made to make the defendant seem to be a typical member of the local society. The attorney is obviously seeking to take advantage of what thinking concept?
What is the representative heuristic?
500
Which language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like “jump” before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like “fight”?
Who is Chomsky?