Chapter 1-3 & 5
These alleles are always expressed if they are present.
What are dominant alleles?
This is a biological cycle that occurs over a 24 hour period.
What is a circadian rhythm?
Worked with dogs to study classical conditioning/
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.
What is a schema?
This is an active system that allows us to encode, store and retrieve information over different periods of time.
What is memory?
A study around one person that gives a lot of detail.
What is a case study?
This stage of sleep is when dreaming occurs most often and is most vivid.
What is REM sleep?
The disappearance or
weakening of a learned response
following the removal or absence of the
unconditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
This is the system of rules for combining words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences.
What is syntax?
This is a type of encoding that works with words and their meanings.
What is semantic encoding?
The father of psychology and founder of structuralism.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Any significant loss of sleep that results in problems of concentration and irritability.
What is Sleep Debt?
Form of learning that focuses on the consequences of a behavior.
What is Operant Conditioning?
This theory of intelligence believes that there are nine types of intelligence ranging from verbal, linguistic, and mathematical to interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
This is the loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma or psychological trauma.
What is amnesia?
What is Dopamine?
This stage of sleep includes sleep spindles.
What is stage 2 sleep?
This is paired with a unconditioned stimulus to eventually become a conditioned stimulus.
What is a neutral stimulus?
This form of thinking is used when more than one possibility exists on a situation and is related to creativity.
This is a type of long-term memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses.
What is procedural memory?
This is the absolute threshold for vision.
What is a candle flame 30 miles away?
This sleep disorder occurs when the muscle paralysis in REM sleep fails.
What is REM sleep behavior disorder?
This is used to decrease a behavior by adding something negative.
This form of intelligence is acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
This is a type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it.
What are flashbulb memories?