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Psych. Jeap. Quiz #2

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This is the theory of when a cell may be excited by a red receptor and inhibited by a green receptor; or excited y a yellow receptor and inhibited by a blue receptor.   Opponent Process Theory  
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When the brain processes and organizes sensations to give it all meaning   Perception  
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This is the term used when we are talking about how knowledge and memory play a role in processing sensations   Top-Down Processing (know Bottom Up too)  
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Receiving stimuli from the environment   Sensation  
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The detection of information below the level of conscious awareness   Subliminal perception  
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The minimum amount of stimulus energy that a person can detect   Absolute threshold (know difference threshold and Weber's Law)  
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The field of psychology is interested in how people organize their perceptions according to patterns.   Gestalt Psych.  
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When two lines are the same length but have the illusion of being different lengths.   Muller-Lyer illusion (know both illusions from PowerPoint)  
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This is when I focus in on one person in a crowded room of people where there is a lot of noise.   Cocktail Party effect  
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When your right brain tries to say the color, but your left brain insists on reading the word.   Stroop effect  
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This is when objects that are grouped together are seen as a whole   Law of Closure (know other Gestalt Laws)  
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This is part of the eye that detects color   Cones  
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People (mostly men) who only have two types of receptors and who are color-blind are referred to as this.   Dichromatic  
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Color perception is produced by 3 types of receptors that are sensitive to different wavelength ranges (is known as this)   Trichromatic Theory  
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According to the Opponent Process Theory, if I stare at a screen with a red flag with a field of blue in the left hand corner, and then I look at a blank screen, this will be what I see in the afterimage.   Green flag with a field of yellow in the left hand corner  
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These are cues about depth that depend on the combination of the images in the left and right eyes and the way they both work together.   Binocular cues  
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This type of monocular cue as it allows us to know distance from out world experience on this earth.   Familiar size (know three types of monocular cues)  
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Decision making based on uncertainty is referred to as this   Signal detection Theory  
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When we do this, the sensations first go to the temporal lobes and then other parts of the brain, particularly the limbic system (involved in emotion in memory)   Smell  
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This is when the sound is to your left and your left ear experiences the greatest intensity, while the right ear experiences less intensity   The Sound Shadow  
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These are the sensory nerve endings under the skin that detect temperature changes... they provide input in order to keep the body at 98.6 Farenheit   Thermoreceptors  
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These are the rounded bumps on your tongue that contain your taste buds. We have 10,000 taste buds.   Papillae  
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This is the sensation that warns us when there is damage to the body   Pain  
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Characterized by delta waves   Sleep stages 3 and 4  
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This is considered stage 5 sleep   REM  
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What does REM stand for?   Rapid eye movement  
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This is characterized by sleep spindles   Stage 2 sleep  
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This is when night terrors occur   Stage 4 sleep  
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This is when you just cannot get to sleep   Insomnia  
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This is the sudden urge to sleep   Narcolepsy  
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This is when the windpipe fails to open while sleeping   Sleep apnea  
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This always leads to death, is rare, and is caused by a genetic mutation   Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI)  
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This can be a side effect of taking Ambien   Sleep eating (also sleep driving is okay for this one)  
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These go up when my temperature increases; conversely, these go down when my temperature decreases   Circadian rhythms  
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Blood sugar, blood pressure, and temperature are all related to this   Circadian rhythms  
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Also known as simniloquy   Sleep talking (know term for sleep walking)  
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He talked about the manifest and latent content of dreams   Freud (know about these terms as well)  
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This is a small brain structure that uses input from the retina to synchronize its own rhythm with the daily cycle of light and dark   Suprachiasmatic nucleus  
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Alcohol is considered this   Depressant/Disease  
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Most common drug used in the U.S.   Caffeine  
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This is the repeated use of psychoactive drugs for emotional reasons   Psychological dependence (know difference between psychological and physical dependence, and tolerance)  
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This popular drug, that is now legal in some states, is considered a hallucinogen.   Marijuana  
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Inhalants are in this class of drugs   Stimulants  
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This drug is often confused with being a stimulant, but is actually in the category of hallucinogen   Ecstacy  
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Ecstacy can decrease ____________ reuptake in chronic users and SSRIs are often prescribed.   Serotonin  
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This drug was popularized in the series, "Breaking Bad"   Crystal Meth  
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Pain medications are now considered a gateway drug for this opiate   Heroine  
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This is an opiate that can be prescribed to you by your physician   Codeine  
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This has no meaning concerning the response until it is paired with the unconditioned stimulus.   Neutral stimulus  
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He is the person associated with Classical Conditioning   Ivan Pavlov  
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This is the term used when a new stimulus is similar to the original conditioned stimulus   Generalization  
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This produces a response based on reflexes   Unconditioned stimulus  
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When "weakening" the conditioned response by associating the conditioned stimulus with a new unconditioned stimulus; for example, if the researchers had done this for Little Albert they would have given him the candy while showing him the rat.   Counterconditioning  
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He was doing his research at the same time Pavlov did his   Thorndike  
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he said, "Human behavior is neither whimsical or the outcome of free will... it follows definitive, lawful principles."   B.F. skinner  
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This is when I ADD a POSITIVE stimulus to the environment. Ex.) I am going to give you a gold star on your paper for a good job.   Positive reinforcer  
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This is when I REMOVE an AVERSIVE stimulus from the environment. Ex.) When my alarm goes off to wake me up in the morning. I want to remove the stimulus (because it's annoying me), and it also produces the behavior of waking me up.   Negative reinfocer  
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This is when I ADD an AVERSIVE stimulus to the environment. Ex.) Little Johnny was spanked for being a bad boy   Positive punishment  
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This is when I REMOVE a POSITIVE stimulus from the environment. Ex.) When I get pulled over by the police for speeding and I have to pay a fine of $250, this is removing my money from my wallet.   Negative punishment  
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He valued empirical observation   B.F. Skinner  
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Type of reinforcement provides reinforcement after an unpredictable NUMBER of responses (slot machine)   Variable-ratio schedule  
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This is when your first response is rewarded but only after a certain amount of TIME goes by; Ex.) your pay check. You know that you will receive it on a certain day   Fixed-interval schedule  
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These reinforcers can be exchanged for each other   Conditioned reinforcer and primary reinforcer  
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This type of conditioning is INVOLUNTARY and involves reflexes. Ex.) Tank cannot control his salivation when he smells his dog food.   Classical conditioning  
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This type of conditioning is VOLUNTARY as the consequences of the condition will determine my behavior. Ex.) In order to get a treat (the positive reinforcement) Tank will give me his paw.   Operant conditioning  
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This theory, __________________, developed by this psychologist ____________________, said that we learn by modeling other people and their behaviors.   Observational Learning; Albert Bandura  
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"Ah ha" moment!   Insight Learning  
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Who developed insight learning   Kohler  
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Term used when a person still elicits a behavior even if there is no reward at the end.   Latent learning  
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Who developed Latent Learning   Tolman (know cognitive mapping)  
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This is when we revert to instinctive behaviors. We often see this in animals. We train them, but sometimes they may go back to their "animal ways"   Instinctive drift  
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This is when you eat or drink something that makes you sick and you never want that food or beverage again.   Taste aversion  
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This is the response associated with the unconditioned stimulous   Unconditioned response  
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This was the neutral stimulus but is now this as it produces the response   Conditioned stimulus  
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This is the learned response to the conditioned stimulus   Conditioned response  
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This is when a conditioned response has not completely extinguished and may come back   Spontaneous recovery  
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The beer starts as the _______________, while the attractive woman is the __________________.   Neutral stimulus; unconditioned stimulous  
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Once the woman and the beer are paired all I need to do is show the beer which now becomes the ______________. Drinking the beer is the ___________________.   Conditioned stimulus; Conditioned response  
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