Knowing or being aware of internal and external experience.

Fast, involuntary responses to stimuli that are mediated by circuits in the spinal cord and brainstem.

The ability to retain knowledge

Copying a behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and spontaneously

What you are aware of via the senses.

The most basic form of associative learning, in which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli.

This is the process of acquiring sensory information and transforming it into a format that can be stored in memory

Whether something is a reinforcer (increases behavior) or a punishment (decreases behavior) is defined by...

These EEG waves are observed mainly in people who are awake and alert and also characterized dreaming.

A learned reaction

Breathing can stop for a minute or more before the body’s alarms wake the sleeper

The ability to think logically without the need to use previously learned knowledge (e.g., detect visual patterns).

Natural and artificial light inhibits this neurotransmitter.

This require that a behavior occur a set number of times for each reinforcement.

Precise, step-by-step set of rules that reliably generates a solution to a problem

Whatever behavior an organism spends the most time and energy doing is likely to be an important behavior to that organism.

Muscle paralysis that accompanies REM sleep occurs suddenly, though the person is still fully alert

The ability to make fine distinctions between the implications of related stimuli

The process of associating a behavior with its consequences

A vivid, conscious memory of a personal experience