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ch. 4, 5, & 6

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show Consciousness  
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A change in awareness produced by sleep, meditation, hypnosis, or drugs.   show
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show Circadian Rhythms  
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*structure in the hypothalamus *The body's biological clock *Controls the timing of circadian rhythms *Signals the pineal gland to secrete or suppress melatonin.   show
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show melatonin  
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The symptoms of ? result from the difference between our internal clock and the time in our environment.   show
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show Phase delays; phase advances  
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The time during a 24-hour period when the biological clock tells a person to go to sleep.   show
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show Restorative theory of sleep  
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show Circadian theory of sleep  
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show NREM sleep  
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Characterized by rapid eye movements, paralysis of large muscles, fast and irregular heart and respiration rates, increased brain activity, and vivid dreams.   show
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show REM sleep  
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? negatively impacts mood, alertness, and performance and reduces the body's ability to warm itself, even at relatively comfortable temperatures   show
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show Sleep deprivation  
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Have a story like quality and are more visual, vivid, and emotional.   show
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Occur during NREM sleep; less frequent and memorable.   show
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Set of techniques that enable dreamers to control the content of dreams   show
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Story line   show
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show Freud's Latent content  
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show Activation-synthesis theory of dreaming  
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show Cognitive theory of dreaming  
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show Insomnia  
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show narcolepsy  
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show Sleep apnea  
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A parasomnia that occurs during stage 4 sleep, usually in children   show
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show REM sleep disorder  
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show Psychoactive Drug  
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show Psychological Dependence  
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Craving-the desire to take a drug Relapse-a return to the use of a drug following a period of abstinence from use of the drug.   show
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show Tolerance  
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show Withdrawal  
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show Depressants  
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show Alcohol  
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Sleeping pills Anti-anxiety pills   show
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• Speed up bodily functions Increase heart rate, breathing Appetite diminishes Increased energy and self-control   show
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show Stimulants  
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• Psychedelic drugs distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input LSD   show
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show Hallucinogens  
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Reduction in serotonin Memory loss Mood regulation Learning   show
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show Learning  
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show Classical conditioning  
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any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds.   show
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show conditioned reflexes  
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inborn, automatic, unlearned response to a particular stimulus.   show
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show Extinction  
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show Spontaneous recovery  
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show Generalization  
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Learned ability to distinguish between similar stimuli so that the CR occurs only to the original CS but not to similar stimuli.   show
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show Watson and Rayner (1920) “Little Albert” study  
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show Taste aversions  
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A type of learning in which the consequences of behavior are manipulated so as to increase or decrease the frequency of an existing response or to shape an entirely new response.   show
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show Edward Thorndike  
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The consequence, or effect, of a response determines whether the tendency to respond in the same way in the future is strengthened or weakened   show
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show Operant conditioning  
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the causes of behavior are in the environment and do not result from inner mental events, such as thoughts, feelings, or perceptions.   show
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show Reinforcement  
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A pleasant or desirable consequence that increases the probability that a response will be repeated (present to increase behavior).   show
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- Termination of an unpleasant condition after a response, which increases the probability that the response will be repeated (Remove to increase behavior).   show
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A reinforcer that fulfills a basic physical need and does not depend on learning   show
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A reinforcer that is acquired or learned through association with other reinforcers.   show
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Gradually molding a desired behavior (response) by reinforcing any movement in the direction of the desired response.   show
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show Continuous reinforcement  
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reinforcement that does not follow every target response   show
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show Ratio schedules  
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a given amount of time must pass before a reinforcer is administered.   show
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Reinforcer given after a fixed number of correct nonreinforced responses.   show
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Reinforcer is given after a varying number of nonreinforced responses   show
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Reinforcer is given after first correct response after a specific period of time has elapsed.   show
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Reinforcer is given after first correct response following a carrying period of time.   show
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show Cognitive processes  
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?contends that many behaviors or responses are acquired through observational learning, or as he more often calls it now, ?   show
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show Observational learning  
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show Insight  
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Learning that occurs without apparent reinforcement and is not demonstrated until the organism is motivated to do so   show
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Latent Learning that occurs without apparent reinforcement and is not demonstrated until the organism is motivated to do so   show
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A mental representation of a spatial arrangement such as a maze   show
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is the persistence of learning over time.   show
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show Encoding  
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show Consolidation  
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How is information maintained?   show
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show Retrieval  
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Transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory   show
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Maintaining information in memory   show
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Bringing stored material to mind   show
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show Sensory memory  
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Holds about seven (plus or minus two) items for less than 30 seconds without rehearsal Also called working memory   show
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show Rehearsal  
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show Chunking  
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has a virtually unlimited capacity that contains vast stores of a person’s permanent or relatively permanent memories   show
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show Declarative memory  
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Stores motor skills, habits, simple conditioned responses   show
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show Recall  
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show Paired Associate  
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Task in which a person must identify information as having been encountered before   show
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show Relearning  
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Recall is better for the beginning and ending items than for the middle items in the sequence   show
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show Primary effect  
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Tendency to recall the last items in a sequence more easily than the middle items.   show
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People recall material more easily in the same environment in which they learned it   show
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recalls best when in the dame emotional state as when the information was encoded   show
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The relationship between time and forgetting is called   show
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show Proactive interference  
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show Retroactive interference  
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Material never put in long term memory   show
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memory trace if not used, disappears in time   show
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show Motivated forgetting  
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Not remembering to carry out some intended action   show
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show Retrieval failure  
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Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon   show
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show Organization  
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show Over learning  
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Sleep, Emotional conditions, Stress, Anxiety, Nutrition are all factors affecting? • Substance use Hormonal fluctuations   show
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