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What is Positive Punishment
This refers to applying an aversive consequence that reduces the frequency or eliminates a behavior.
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What is encoding, storage, and retrieval
Memory can be divided into these three steps.
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What is procedural memory
An implicit memory for how to carry out skilled movement.
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hypothalamus
The INAH-3 section of the_____ is the part of the brain that is differs in homosexual and heterosexual males.
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What is Chunking
The process of grouping similar or meaningful information together.
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What is functional fixedness
Potential barrier to successful problem solving in which a concept is considered in its most typical form
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What is Cue
Any stimulus that aids retrieval of information
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What is Variable Interval Schedule
During this schedule the reward is given after a variable amount of time.
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Episodic Memory
A memory from personal experience, like a trip to Disney World that you went.
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What is Schemas
Pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them
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What is intelligence
the ability to understand complex ideas, adapt effectively to the environment, learn from experience, and overcome obstacles
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What is Latent Inhibition
The idea that it takes more time to learn something new about the familiar than it does learn about the unfamiliar,
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Spreading Activation Model
A connectionist theory proposing that people organize general knowledge based on their individual experiences.
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What is Decay
The reduction in ability to retrieve rarely used information over time is called
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What is Depression
People with this disorder enter REM earlier and spend more time in REM
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phonological loop
This is the component of the working memory that responsible for the verbal and auditory information.
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What is Heuristic
Time-efficient, “rule of thumb” or short cut to problem solving
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