Sensation vs Perception
Stimuli that remain relatively constant over prolonged periods of time.
What is Sensory Adaptation.
Unlearned knowledge, involving complex patterns of behavior
What is Instinct
Learning disability in which letters are not processed properly by the brain
What is Dyslexia
Organizing information into manageable bits or chunks
What is Chunking
Formed by groupings of taste receptor cells with hair-like extensions
What are Taste buds
Failure to notice something that is completely visible due to person actively attending to something else and did not pay attention to other things.
What is Inattentional blindness
Rewarding a behavior every time it occurs
What is Continuous reinforcement
Problem-solving strategy characterized by a specific set of instructions
What is Algorithm
loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma
What is Amnesia
a desirable stimulus is added to increase a behavior.
What is Positive reinforcement
Cells that are located in a mucous membrane at the top of the nose.
What is Olfactory receptors.
Return of a previously extinguished conditioned response
What is Spontaneous recovery
Set of behaviors that are performed the same way each time; also referred to as a cognitive script
What is Event schema
physical trace of memory
What is Engram
is loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma
What is Retrograde amnesia
The vibration of the eardrum and/or movement of the ossicles
What is conductive hearing loss failure.
Rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior
What is shaping
Mental shortcut that saves time when solving a problem
What is Heuristic
type of declarative memory about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts
What is Semantic Memory
Refers to the words of a given language. Thus, lexicon is a language’s vocabulary.
What is Lexicon
Receptor that detects transient pressure and higher frequency vibrations
What is Pacinian Corpuscle
Form of learning that involves connecting certain stimuli or events that occur together in the environment (classical and operant conditioning)
What is Associative learning
Smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning
What is Morpheme
information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information
What is Retroactive Interference
which is the input of information into the memory system
What is Encoding