Misc 2 | The Knowing Mind | The Thinking Mind | Other Stuff |
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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 Mental Representation
A unit of stored information that can be activated and manipulated by thought
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What is procedural memory
Degeneration in the basal ganglia will result in difficulty with this type of memory
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What is Alpha waves
These waves are observed in people who are awake, but relaxed and perhaps a bit drowsy or under stimulated.
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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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What is Priming
Activating one concept will activate concepts that are closely related, making them easier to retrieve
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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 familiar than about an unfamiliar.
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What is Declarative Memories
Consciously retrieved memories that are easy to verbalize.
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What is Feature Comparison Approach
This approach suggests that we identify a set of necessary and sufficient features required for category membership.
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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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What is Visuospatial Sketch Pad
The component of working memory that is responsible for holding visual and spatial information
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What is Heuristic
Time-efficient, “rule of thumb” or short cut to problem solving
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What is the Spreading Activation Model
According to this model, we store concepts in long-term memory by linking them to other concepts in very complex networks
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