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sensation and perception
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Three steps that are basic to all sensory systems include the ___ _____ and ____ of information to the brain.
receiving, transforming, and delivering
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The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called
What is discrimination
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The retention of encoded information over time refers to
What is storage
100
mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
What is cognition
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_______refers to the activation of certain associations 

Priming 

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The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the
What is the absolute threshold.
200
An event that strengthens the behavior it follows is a(n)
What is reinforcement
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Explicit memory is also known as
What is declarative memory.
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best example of a particular category.
What is a prototype
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Damage to the _______ would most likely interfere with a person's ability to learn the names of newly introduced people.

hippocampus

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diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.
What is sensory adaptation
300
Both classical and operant conditioning are forms of
What is associative learning
300
the organization of information into meaningful units.
What is chunking
300
The smallest distinctive sound unit of language is called a
What is phoneme
300

The loudness of sounds is determined by the ________ of sound waves.

amplitude

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Retinal disparity is an important cue for
What is perceiving distance
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negative punishment is the withdrawal of a(n) ________ stimulus following a behavior.
pleasant
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Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?
What is long term
400
Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis emphasizes that
words shape the way people think.
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Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory.

implicit; explicit

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Indicators of distance which are available to either eye alone are called
Monocular cues
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Positive reinforcers ________ the rate of operant responding, and negative reinforcers ________ the rate of operant responding.
increase; increase
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a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli.
What is echoic memory
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 People with opposing views of capital punishment reviewed mixed evidence regarding its effectiveness as a crime deterrent. As a result, their opposing views differed more strongly than ever. This best illustrates

belief perseverance.

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The _______ refers to the tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions.

confirmation bias