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I'm Sensing Some Tension
Sweet Dreams
I Saw It With My Own Eyes
Remembering Memory
Child's Play
100
The stimulation of a sense organ.
What is sensation?
100
This is the term for when a symbol in a dream represents multiple wishes.
What is condensation?
100
Our recollection of 9/11 is an example of this type of memory.
What is a flashbulb memory?
100
A multiple choice test is an example of this type of memory test.
What is recognition?
100
The fact that babies wouldn't crawl to their mom's over what looked like a cliff showed they had developed this.
What is depth perception?
200
I start at zero and turn up the volume very slowly. When my friend suddenly says she can hear it, I have reached her this.
What is absolute threshold?
200
Freud thought these dreams are the easiest to analyze because they are usually straight wish fulfillment.
What are children's dreams?
200
In your eye, these are key for night vision and peripheral vision.
What are rods?
200
People with this disorder have vivid flashback nightmares that support the idea of memory replication
What is PTSD?
200
This aides in the development of depth perception
What is crawling or moving around?
300
The selection, organization and interpretation of a sensory input.
What is perception?
300
Active beta waves are seen on an EEG during this sleep stage.
What is REM?
300
This quality of light determines what color we see.
What is wavelength?
300
These are factors in the environment that get in the way of seeing an event accurately
What are situational factors?
300
Due to synchronization of auditory and visual perception, infants stared longer at this?
What is a video where the sounds matched the actions?
400
When I step into a super hot shower, after a while it begins to feel just warm, thanks to this.
What is sensory adaptation?
400
Also known as our biological clock, these regulate sleep, as well as blood pressure and hormone production.
What are circadian rhythms?
400
This is the idea that objects that are closer together will be seen as a single figure.
What is the Gestalt principle of proximity?
400
The name for memories of actions, skills and operations. For example, how to tie your shoe.
What is non-declarative memory?
400
The strict timeframe in childhood for normal vision to develop (which has been challenged by experiments) is called this.
What is the critical period?
500
I decide to mess with my friend again while we are listening to the radio, which is now playing loudly. I start turning it down very slowly. A few seconds later she shouts, "Stop turning down the music!" This time I've reached her this.
What is just noticeable difference?
500
This is an evolutionary reason to explain the function of sleep.
What is less exposure to predators or less consumption of resources?
500
This is the name of the parts of a flashbulb memory that are included by nearly everyone
What are canonical catergories?
500
Sally learned Tim's name while looking at his face. Later, when she only heard his voice, she could not remember his name. That makes sense thanks to this principle.
What is the encoding specificity principle?
500
If you made a hungry child look at blurry pictures of buildings, he or she would likely guess they were pictures of this.
What is food?