Consciousness
The study of how things appear to the conscious person is called:
What is phenomenology?
The ability to store and retrieve information over time is called:
What is memory?
T/F: Learning is based on experience.
What is True?
T/F Descartes believed that the mind is part of the physical world.
What is False?
Which brain waves are associated with the deepest stages of sleep?
What is delta?
Keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating it is called:
What is rehearsal?
The increase in the likelihood of a behavior when it functions to remove an aversive stimulus is called:
What is negative reinforcement?
_____ is perceived as having experience but not agency.
What is a baby?
Fran's 4-year-old son awoke at 9:00 p.m., crying and in a panic, but did not remember having a dream. It is likely that Fran's son experienced:
What is a night terror?
Which type of memory decays the fastest?
What is iconic?
Jamie is relaxing on the beach when a gust of wind blows some sand into her eye. She blinks reflexively. The sand is a(n) _____ stimulus.
What is unconditioned?
Learned food aversions should occur more often with _____ due to the evolutionary adaptive conditioning of rejecting foods that may be toxic.
What novel foods?
Your ability to watch and listen to your psychology professor as she lectures, rather than watching all the other students in the classroom, illustrates the _____ of consciousness.
What is selectivity?
Damage to the hippocampus can result in the inability to remember things that have happened since the damage occurred. This is called:
What is anterograde amnesia?
An example of a nonassociative learning process is:
What is habituation?
As Juan is reading his psychology textbook, his neighbor begins to play loud music and disrupts Juan's perception of the information in the textbook. This will cause Juan to have difficulty with _____ of the information.
What is encoding?
Although Alek is clearly sleeping, when Katrina pokes him in the ribs, Alek rolls over. This demonstrates that Alek is:
What is minimally conscious?
Research has shown that painful memories can be disrupted during:
What is reconsolidation?
In classical experiments in mice, researchers paired a tone (CS) with a shock (US) multiple times to elicit high levels of freezing (or fear) during the presentation of the tone alone. With the process of _____, the researchers observed decreased freezing.
What is extinction?
An elementary school class took a spelling test immediately after learning how to bake a cake. The teacher noticed that many of the students spelled the word flour correctly instead of flower, as she had expected. This scenario illustrates:
What is priming?