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PSU Psychology 100 Exam 2 (Crosby)

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show Least Energy for correct stimulus to detect 50% of the Time.  
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Just Noticeable Difference   show
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show experience/expectations -listening to your favorite song bc you know how you'll feel -past experiences -Perception  
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show Making new sense of new material -hearing a new song for the first time  
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Perception   show
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show Activation of receptors in various sense organs- allowing outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain  
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Habituation Adaptation   show
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Sensory Adaptation   show
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show Cornea Iris Pupil Lens Retina (CIP LR)  
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Cornea   show
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Iris   show
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show When light enters interior of the eye  
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show helps to focus light to the retina  
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Visual Accommodation   show
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show -Contains photo receptor cells -light gets covered to electrical impulses -3 Layers  
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show 1) Light passes through ganglion and bipolar cells 2)reaches and stimulates rods and cones 3)Nerve impulses from rods and cones travel alone a nerve pathway to the brain  
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show Light Sensory Impulse Visual Cortex in occipital lobe then decisions are made  
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Dark Adaption   show
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show recovery of the eyes sensitivity to visual stimuli in light after exposure to darkness (Dark to Light) -happens really quickly within a matter of seconds -Involved with Cones  
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After image   show
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show Three colors- blue green red firing rates of cones and color based on how much of each of the colored cones are activated  
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Opponent Process Theory   show
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Color Blindness   show
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Monochrome Blindness   show
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Protanopia   show
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Tritanopia   show
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Why do more males suffer from color blindness?   show
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Touch   show
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Kinesthetic Sense   show
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show movement/body position/balance  
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Motion Sickness   show
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The Basics of Perception   show
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show Tendency to perceive things a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions  
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show Figure Ground, proximity, Similarity, Closure, Continuity, Contiguity, Common Area  
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show ability to perceive world in 3 dimensions  
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show cues for perceiving depth based on one eye  
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show cues for perceiving depth based on two eyes  
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show rotation of eyes to focus on one single subject  
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show eyes don't see same image bc of the distance they are from echother  
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show Perception that does not respond to reality  
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Learning   show
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Pavlov's Classical Conditioning   show
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Basic Principles in Classical Conditioning   show
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show Tendency to respond with conditioned response to something that is only similar so the stimulus (Dogs salvating to a similar tone)  
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show Tendency to stop making this generalized response because the similar stimulus is NEVER paired with the real conditioned stimuli  
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High-Order Conditioning   show
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show emotional response that has become classically conditioned by stimuli -advertisement of things that make you happy so you are happy when u watch it  
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show watching something happen but creating a conditioned response from it even though it isn't happening to you -Seeing kids crying getting a shot and you start crying before you get your shot  
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show development of nausea in response to a specific taste since the taste was one followed by a bad experience -(Oreo Fudge)  
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show Tendency of animals to learn certain associates with only one or a few pairings due to the survival value of learning  
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Pavlov beleived classical conditioning worked because..   show
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Rods   show
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show When a dog heres a bell..... It expects food..... so dog salivates  
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show Voluntary behavior learned through consequences  
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show response followed by pleasurable consequences are repeated  
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show Operant Conditioning studied observable measurable behavior learning depends on the consequences  
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Reinforcement   show
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Positive Reinforcement   show
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show Taking away for a good thing (taking away chores if you get a good grade)  
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show reinforcement after some but not all correct responses -stronger response  
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Continuous Reinforcement   show
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show how many times you respond  
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Partial Reinforcement Interval   show
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show same response--> same reinforcement for every 5 toys made, 20$ recieved  
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show # of responses until reinforcements varies participant rapid rate without pauses (SLOT MACHINES- you don't know when they will pay out)  
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show Always same time before reinforcement opportunity -long pauses after reinforcement  
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Variable Interval   show
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show Any consequence that make a response less likely to occur  
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show Adding unpleasant stimulus (Adding Chores, Spanking, Speeding Ticket)  
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show -taking away pleasant stimulus (Taking away phone, car keys, or things you like)  
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show -Fear/Anxiety -Lying -Avoidance -Modeling of Aggression  
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Shaping   show
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show understanding why punishment is different in things  
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show Apply things that work in one thing to other things  
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Cognitive Learning Theory   show
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Tolmans Latent Learning   show
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show -Kohler -Sudeen perception of relationship among various parts of the problem allowing solution of problem to come quickly -worked with chimpanzees  
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show Tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of repeated failures  
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Restorative Theory   show
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show figures out what we retain while we sleep  
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show Provide access to the unconscious. Include manifest and latent content. -Happens during REM sleep  
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show The actual content of the dream  
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show The hidden meaning of the dream  
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Narcolepsy   show
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Insomnia   show
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show Bad dreams arousing feelings of horror, helplessness, extreme sorrow, etc. (occurs during REM sleep-Second Half of The Night)  
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REM Behavior Disorder   show
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show Person stops breathing for short periods of sleep  
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REM SLEEP   show
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show Eyes move under eyelids, increase in body functions, 90% of dreaming, REM paralysis  
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show Light sleep, hypnic jerk, hypnagogic images  
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show Temperature, breathing, and heart rate decrease, sleep spindles  
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show Growth hormones released, hard to wake up  
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Night Terrors   show
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show Occurs during deep sleep (stage 3). Moving around or walking in ones sleep @  
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