Consciousness
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
The process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses; there are 3 kinds.
What is classical conditioning?
The active, conscious manipulation of temporarily stored information with three main components, each of which can function independently.
What is short-term memory?
Manipulation of mental representations of information in order to draw inferences and conclusions.
What is thinking?
Biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that activate and direct behavior.
What is motivation?
Deals with the learning of active, voluntary behaviors that are shaped and maintained by their consequences.
Operant conditioning
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
These are manipulated in the same way as an actual image, using all the senses and activate the same brain regions that real experiences do as well.
What are mental representations?
People are motivated to engage in certain behaviors because of evolutionary programming, and such natural motivations include fear, disgust and love.
What is instinct theory?
Bright light, especially sunlight, helps regulate the sleep–wake cycle and other _____________.
What is circadian rhythms?
Response is followed by the addition of a reinforcing stimulus, increasing the likelihood that the response will be repeated in similar situations.
What is positive reinforcement?
Encodes emotional aspects of memory.
What is amygdala?
The most typical instance of a particular concept.
Behavior motivated by desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs and desire to restore homeostasis.
What is drive theory?
Is a cooperative social interaction in which the hypnotized person responds to the hypnotist’s suggestions with changes in perception, memory, and behavior.
What is hypnosis?
Response results in the removal of, avoidance of, or escape from a punishing stimulus, increasing the likelihood that the response will be repeated in similar situations.
What is negative reinforcement?
Progressive disease that destroys neurons in the brain, gradually impairing memory, thinking, language, and other cognitive functions; eventually results in complete inability to care for oneself.
What is Alzheimer's?
Individual instances or examples of a concept or category held in memory
What is examplar?
A psychological state involving subjective experience, physiological response, and behavioral or expressive response.
What is emotion?
Refers to doing two or more things at once and involves the division of attention
What is multi-tasking?
The phenomenon in which exposure to inescapable and uncontrollable aversive events produces PASSIVE behavior.
What is learned helplessness?
Any information stored longer than the 20-second duration of short-term memory.
Long-term memory.
Involves tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way.
What is functional fixedness?
The rate at which the body, when it is at rest, uses energy for vital functions, such as heartbeat and respiration.
What is basal-metabolic rate?