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Unit 2

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absolute threshold   minimum intensity of stimulation that must occur before you experience a sensation  
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difference threshold   just noticeable difference between two stimuli  
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signal detection theory   detecting a stimulus requires making a judgment  
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gate control theory of pain   pain receptors must be activated and a neural gate in the spinal cord must allow signals through to the brain  
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sound intensity   amplitude  
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sound pitch   frequency  
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sensory adaption   decrease in sensitivity to a constant level of stimulation  
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hue   frequency  
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brightness   amplitude  
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saturation   mixture of wavelengths  
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feature detector   cells in the visual cortex that are sensitive to specific features of the environment  
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lateral inhibition   cells in neighboring parts of the retina inhibit each other  
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rescorla-wagner model   the strength of the CS-US association is determined by the extent to which the US is unexpected or surprising; novel stimuli  
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premack principle   a more valued activity can be used to reinforce the performance of a less valued activity; spinach and ice cream  
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hebb's theory   cells that fire together, wire together  
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LTP   strengthening of a synaptic connection so that postsynaptic neurons are more easily activated  
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garcia effect   when someone is biologically primed to associate sickness with a taste and smell  
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biological preparedness   biologically programmed to fear specific objects  
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thorndike's law of effect   rewarded behavior is likely to reoccur  
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spread of effects   the connection created by punishment could be broader than intended  
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steps of observational learning   attention, retention, reproduction, motivation  
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baddeley's model of working memory   central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer  
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flashbulb memories   vivid memories of the circumstances in which one first learned of a surprising and consequential or emotionally arousing event  
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explicit memory   stuff you can declare  
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episodic   stuff that happens to you  
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semantic   description of facts/general knowledge  
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implicit   unconscious learning; no effort  
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serial position effect   better recall of early and late items in a list  
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levels of processing   more deeply an item is encoded, the better it is remembered; structural, phonemic, semantic  
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spreading activation   activating one node increases the likelihood of associated nodes becoming active  
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transcience   forgetting over time  
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retroactive interference   new inhibits old  
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proactive interference   old inhibits new  
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ebbinghaus curve   forgetting occurs rapidly over first few days then levels off  
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absentmindedness   inattentive or shallow encoding of events  
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source misattributions   misremembering of the time, place, person, or circumstances involved with a memory  
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cryptomnesia   thinking something is your idea when it really came from somewhere else  
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sleeper effect   credibility of information changes because you forget the original source  
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retrograde amnesia   loses past memories  
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anterograde amnesia   loses ability to form new memories  
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inductive reasoning   specific to general  
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deductive reasoning   general to specific  
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fluid intelligence   information processing in novel/complex circumstances  
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crystallized intelligence   knowledge we acquire through experience and the ability to use that knowledge to solve problems  
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four index scores from WAIS   verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, processing speed  
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factor analysis   if scores on different types of tests cluster together, assume they are measuring the same thing; one general factor underlies all types of skills  
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availability heuristic   tendency to judge the probability of events based on how easy it is to think of examples  
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recognition heuristic   attributes more value to recognized entity  
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representativeness heuristic   judging likelihood of things in terms of how wel they represent prototypes; conjunction fallacy  
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gambler's fallacy   believing the odds of a chance event increase if the event hasn't happened recently  
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