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Exam 2 Key Terms
Pychology Schacter Gilbert Wegner
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absentmindedness | A lapse in attention that results in memory failure. |
| Adaptation | process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. |
| Amygdala | primary role in the processing and memory of emotional reactions. |
| Analytic | having the ability to analyze. |
| Antecedent | a preceding event, condition, cause, phrase, or word |
| Anterograde Amnesia | loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long term memories from before the event remain intact. |
| Bias | inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives |
| Blocking | demonstrates that conditioning to a stimulus could be blocked if the stimulus were reinforced in compound with a previously conditioned stimulus |
| Chunking | organize items into familiar manageable units |
| Classical Conditioning |