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December exam review

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Term
Definition
Psychology   show
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show descriptive and experimental  
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Descriptive methods   show
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show Interviews & rating scales (past psychological state), Tests (present), and longitudinal case study (future)  
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Tests   show
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show artificiality, interference, inappropriateness, and errors in interpretation  
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show systematic intervention= location, variables, characteristics:control and replication, and drawbacks  
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show age, motivation, intellectual, education, sex  
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show hearing, seeing, smelling (olfactory), taste (gustatory), skin, balance, kinaesthetic  
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Defining the term operationally   show
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show experimenters may, inadvertently communicate their hypothesis to the subject  
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show gave an example of how women who were and weren't given liquor and how the non-liquor drinkers got very drunk and the opposite didn't  
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placebo effect   show
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show group with the least done to it  
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show the "thing"  
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show doesn't have the "thing"  
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show repeating a study in identical fashion  
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variables   show
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show changes are independent of what the subject does  
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show changes are dependent on changes in the independent variable (reaction of the participants, what is being studied)  
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perceptual organization   show
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show the ability to unlearn and organize incoming sensations into patterns  
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principles of figure-ground   show
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show can occur from conflicting information  
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show 25%  
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Stage 2 sleep   show
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stage 3 sleep   show
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stage 4 sleep   show
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show "paradoxical sleep" b/c you seem to be awake physiologically, when behaviourally you seem more asleep physiologically, hard to awaken people in this stage, a new section of REM sleep every 90 mins, happens after non-rem sleep, loss of muscle tone  
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show the part of the brain responsible for the loss of muscle tone while sleeping  
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Why we dream   show
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show dreams of absent minded transgression (ex. alcoholic who quit cold turkey may experience a dream about having a drink)  
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show represent desires free from the interference of the reality of the waking state  
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show deprived of the opportunity to sleep so when they get the chance they do/catch up if given as much time as they want (up to 40% more time in REM sleep)  
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nightmare   show
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show there is breathing difficulty, and is a stage 4 awakening  
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Methods of threshold determination   show
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show method of constant stimuli, method of limits, and method of average error  
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psychophysics   show
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show the smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer (not a constant value that changes from person-to-person and situation-to-situation)  
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show the smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuli are compared (JND-just noticeable difference)  
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Weber's law   show
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signal detection   show
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perceptual constancy   show
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show is a relatively permanent change in behaviour or change in behaviour potential  
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association   show
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show BEOFRE:includes a unconditioned stimulus which causes an unconditioned response DURING:the unconditioned stimulus is paired with a conditioning response which causes the unconditioned response AFTER:the conditioned stimulus causes a conditioned response  
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show phobias  
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stimulus generalization   show
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show present with the original stimulus and are nothing like the stimulus but an association is created (ex. Skinner: drinking wine to open envelopes -> then drinking wine and seeing husband)  
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show the weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response; in classical conditioning, it occurs when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus (if experience is very traumatic extinction may never occur)  
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show the reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction  
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show a series of small incremental steps where a positive stimulation is paired lightly with the feared and over time the feared becomes positive or associated with positive  
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show a response that is followed by satisfaction to the organism will be likely to recur; responses followed by neutral or unsatisfying consequences will be less likely to recur than classically cond. responses  
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operant responses are..   show
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show If you do something and you like the result you'll do it again. If you do something and you don't like the result you probably won't do it again  
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punishment is intended to...   show
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positive reinforcement   show
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positive AND negative punishment both lead to..   show
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show a reinforcement procedure in which a response is followed by the REMOVAL, DELAY, or DECREASE in intensity of an unpleasant stimulus; as a result, the response becomes stronger or more likely to occur  
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show a manipulandom- something the animal can tap or push to receive the reinforcement, which also had an electric grid floor to shock for misbehaving  
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schedules of reinforcement can be..   show
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show ratio & interval  
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2 kinds of ratios are..   show
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2 kinds of intervals are..   show
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fixed ratio   show
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variable ratio   show
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show the process by which a stimulus or event strengthens or increases the probability of the response that it follows & must occur in a timely fashion or association may not be made  
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show antrograde & retrograde  
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show can only remember AFTER a certain point in time (usually due to a physical condition ex. head injury or old age)  
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two types of retrograde forgetting..   show
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show motivated or selected forgetting (Freud believed in this, an it is controversial)  
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memory trace decay   show
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distortion   show
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show positive & negative  
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show forgetting previously learned material because of recently learned material - remembering of A is interfered with by more retaining of B (learn A, learn B, try to remember A)  
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show forgetting recently learned material because of previously learned material - remembering of B is interfered with by older memory of A (learn A, learn B, try to remember B)  
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show the tendency to respond differently to two or more similar stimuli; in classical conditioning, it occurs when a stimulus similar to the CS fails to evoke the CR  
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show an decreased probability of responding  
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amnesia   show
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