The biological clock; Regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle, such as wakefulness and body temperature.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
100
Learning that two events occur together.
What is associative learning?
100
Focuses more on the processing of briefly stored information.
What is working memory?
100
Mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is a concept?
100
Principle that those inherited trait variations contributing to survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
What is natural selection?
200
Recurring sleep stage, vivid dreams, muscles are generally relaxed but other body systems are active.
What is REM Sleep?
200
In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a Cs and other stimuli that do not signal a UCS
What is discrimination?
200
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli.
What is Iconic memory?
200
More error prone than algorithms.
What is a heuristic?
200
Knowledge comes from experience via the sense.
What is empiricism?
300
A split consciousness, allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
300
Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.
What is the Law of Effect?
300
Retention independent of conscious recollection also called procedural memory.
What is implicit memory?
300
Tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
What is functional fixedness?
300
The father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement.
What are barbiturates?
400
Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so.
What is mirror neurons?
400
Disruptive effect of new learning on recall of old information.
What is retroactive interference?
400
In a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.
What is a phoneme?
400
The science of behavior (what we we do) and mental processes (sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings)
What is psychology?
500
Alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates are.....
What are depressants?
500
Reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
What is fixed interval?
500
Condition in which a person's identity and relationships center around a false but strongly believed memory of traumatic experience.
What is false memory syndrome?
500
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is linguistic determinism?
500
Introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.