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Random assignment
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What is an altered state of consciousness?
State in which there is a shift or change in pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness.
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What is a psychoactive drug?
A drug that is active in the mind.
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What are the three learning theories?
Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and social cognitive theory.
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What is amnesia?
Loss of memory that can be caused be traumatic brain injuries.
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What is the magic number of memory?
7, plus or minus 2.
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What do we call our 24 hours sleep/wake cycle?
Circadian rhythm.
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Name three different categories of drugs.
Stimulants (uppers), Depressants (downers), and Hallucinogens. There are also opiates and synthetics.
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In Pavlov's experiment, what was the unconditioned stimulus?
The dog's food.
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What is the difference between implicit and explicit memory?
Explicit memories are memories that you can recall such as semantic or episodic, implicit memories cannot be consciously remembered such as procedural, classical conditioning, and priming.
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What are the stages to the information processing model?
Encoding, storage, and retrieval.
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How many sleep stages are there, and what are they?
There is REM sleep and then three stages of non-REM sleep including N1, N2, and N3.
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What is contingency management or a "token economy"?
The use of objects called tokens to reinforce behavior in which the tokens can be accumulated and exchanged for desired items or privileges.
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Reinforcement ____ the likelihood that a behavior will occur while punishment _____ the likelihood that a behavior will occur.
Increases; decreases
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What are echoic and iconic memory?
Echoic memory is auditory memory that lasts 2-4 seconds while iconic memory is visual memory that lasts about 1/2 a second.
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What is the deepest stage of sleep?
Stage 4/N3 when the brain produces almost nothing but delta waves.
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Julie's parents often wake up to her screaming, thrashing, and running around the house as if she is being viciously attacked. When they wake shake her to see what is wrong, she wakes up and has no idea what they are talking about. What sleep disorder is Julie most likely suffering from?
Night terrors.
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What is withdrawal?
Physical symptoms that can include nausea, pain, tremors, crankiness, and high blood pressure, resulting from a lack of an addictive drug in the body systems.
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What are the four schedules of reinforcement?
Fixed interval Variable interval Fixed ratio Variable ratio
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What are the four models of memory?
Information processing model, parallel distributed model, levels of processing model, and 3 stage memory model.
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What is learned helplessness?
The tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past.
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What is REM rebound?
Increased amounts of REM sleep after being deprived of it in previous night's sleep. It is often accompanied with extremely vivid dreams.
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What is the synergizing effect?
The combination or mixing of two depressants which often results in death.
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What is spontaneous recovery?
The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred.
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What are the three stages of the three stage memory model?
Sensory memory storage, short-term memory storage, and long-term memory storage.
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What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), and where is it located?
The SCN is the part of the brain that controls our circadian rhythm, and it is located in the hypothalamus.