A relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience is defined as ____________
What is learning.
100
Not remembering anything prior to being hit on the head is an example of what?
What is retrograde amnesia.
100
Food is an example of what type of reinforcer?
What is a primary reinforcer.
100
Who is the father of psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt.
200
During what stage of sleep is your body paralyzed?
What is REM sleep.
200
Initial stage of learning a response is called ______
What is acquisition.
200
Information decays least rapidly in what memory?
What is long-term memory.
200
Who came up with the theory of Psychoanalysis?
Who is Sigmund Freud
200
Who believed that dreaming was a function of wish-fulfillment?
Who is Sigmund Freud.
300
________ refers to a splitting of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness.
What is dissociation.
300
Responses maintained with intermittent reinforcement are __________ to extinction.
What is more resistant.
300
Which part of your brain is associated with long-term memory?
What is the hippocampus?
300
The duration of short-term memory is typically _______
What is 10-30 seconds.
300
What are the two types of statistics?
What is descriptive and inferential statistics
400
Psychoactive drugs work primarily by altering _______
What is neurotransmitters in the brain.
400
Responses established through a gradual process in which closer and closer approximation of the desired response are reinforced is called what process?
What is shaping.
400
The memory that contains how to shoot a free throw in basketball is contained in ________
What is non-declarative memory.
400
Pseydoforgetting is information loss due to ineffective _______
What is encoding.
400
During what stage of sleep would you NOT experience somnambulism?
What is REM sleep.
500
Taking drugs to avoid withdrawal illness symptoms demonstrates what?
What is physical dependence.
500
Ratio schedules of reinforcement always relate to _____.
What is number of responses given.
500
When the memory of an event is altered by the introduction of inaccurate information later is called _______
What is the misinformation effect.
500
You move to a new house and cannot remember your new phone number. This is an example of
What is proactive interference.
500
What part of your working memory are you utilizing when trying to visualize rearranging a room?