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| Electroencephalograph (EEG) |
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| A device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp. |
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| The 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species |
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| A device that records muscular activity and tension |
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| A device that records eye movements |
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| Sleep stages 3 and 4, during which low frequency delta waves become more prominent in EEG recordings |
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| A deep stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, high-frequency brain waves, and dreaming |
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Types of Brain Waves
- Beta waves
- Alpha waves
- Theta waves
- Delta waves |
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Different levels of brain activity
(13-24 cps) [alert, waking thought]
(8-12 cps) [deep awake relaxation]
(4-7 cps) [light sleep]
(<4 cps) [deep sleep]
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| whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time |
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| chronic problems in getting adequate sleep |
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| A disease market by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods |
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| A sleep disorder characterized by frequent reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep |
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| Anxiety-arousing dreams that lead to awakening, usually from REM sleep |
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| Abrupt awakenings from Non-REM sleep accompanied by intense autonomic arousal and feelings of panic |
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| arising and wandering about while remaining asleep (sleepwalking) |
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| mental experiences during sleep |
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| negative dreams that Don't wake the individual |
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| a systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility |
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| A splitting off of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness |
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| chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning |
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| A progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug |
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| The condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness |
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| the condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug in order to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for the drug |
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| expected states when using |
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| A type of learning in which neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus |
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| Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) |
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| A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning |
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| Unconditioned response (UCR) |
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| An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning |
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| Conditioned stimulus (CS) |
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| A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response |
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| Conditioned response (CR) |
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| learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning |
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| In classical conditioning, any presentation of a stimulus of pair of stimuli |
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| the formation of new conditioned response tendency |
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| occurring together in time and space |
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| the phenomenon that occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus does not respond in the same way to stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus |
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| the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency |
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| In classical conditioning, the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of non exposure to the continued stimulus |
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| Higher order conditioning |
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| a type of conditioning in which a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus |
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| a form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences |
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| the principle that if a response in the presence of a stimulus leads to satisfying effects, the association between the stimulus and the response is strengthened |
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| Principle of reinforcement |
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| an event following a response that strengthens the tendency to make that response |
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| the reinforcement of closer and closer approximation of a desired response |
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| events that are inherently reinforcing because they satisfy biological needs |
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| stimulus events that acquire enforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforces |
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| reinforcement that occurs when a response is strengthened because it is following by the presentation of a rewarding stimulus |
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| the strengthening of a response because it is followed by the removal an aversive stimulus |
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| a type of learning that occurs when an organisms responding is influenced by the observation of others, who are called models |
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| focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events |
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| the proportion of material retained |
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| irrational fears of specific objects or situations |
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| maintaining encoded information in memory over time |
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| recovering information from memory stores |
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| selection of input; information overload; multitasking (doesn't work) |
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| linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding |
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| deciding how or whether information is personally relevant |
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| the preservation of information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second |
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| a limited-capacity store that can maintained unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds |
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| an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time |
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| a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit |
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| the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about information to be stored in memory |
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| usually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events |
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| a multilevel classification system based on common properties among items |
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| an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events |
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| concepts joined together by links that show how the concepts are related |
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| phenomenon that occurs when participants recall of an event they witnessed when participants recall of an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading post event information |
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| the proportion of material retained (remembered) |
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| a memory test that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own without any cues |
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| a memory test that requires subjects to select previously learned information from an array of options |
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| a memory test that requires a subject to memorize information a second time to determine how much time or effort is saved by having learned it before |
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| a memory problem that occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information |
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| a memory problem that occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information |
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| focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events |
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| Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon |
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| a temporary inability to remember something accompanies by a feeling that it's just out of reach |
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