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Thinking about your own though processes is called _____. |
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Understanding that other people have private thoughts and knowledge is called a(n) _____. |
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The sleep disorder characterized by stopping breathing is _____. |
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Needing to take increasingly larger amounts of a drug to achieve the same effect is known as _____. |
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Psychoactive substances that cuase changes in a person's perceptions, including visual hallucinations, are called _____. |
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Many of the body's physical processes, such as temperature and alertness, fluctuate on a daily cycle. This cycle is known as a(n) _____. |
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According to Freud, dreams can have hidden meanings, which reflect unconscious wishes and fears. He called this hidden layer the dream's _____. |
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Cocaine is the category of drugs known as _____. |
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The initial development of a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus is called ____. |
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The time interval between an unconditioned stimulus and a conditioned stimulus is referred to as the ____. |
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The _____ states that behaviors that are followed by a reward will increase in frequency, while behaviors that are followed by a punishment will decrease in frequency. |
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Rewarding an animal for completing behaviors that are closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior is called ____. |
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When parents use the principles of operant conditioning to encourage their children to develop healthy habits, this process is called ____. |
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Applied Behavior Analysis (behavior modification) |
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A stimulus that leads to a response without any prior learning whatsoever is known as a(n) ____ stimulus. |
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A trainer can teach an animal to engage in behaviors that are similar to those engaged in by humans. However, the animal may revert to the behaviors that are more consistent with its species. This phenomenon is known as ____. |
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Behavior that is learned, but is not displayed until a reward is given is an example of ____. |
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When a response is followed by the removal of something unpleasant, this is called ____. |
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Some reinforcers are only valuable to us because we have learned to value them. These are known as ____ reinforcers. |
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In terms of memory encoding, focusing on more than one thing simultaneously is called ____. |
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The theory that says memory is stored throughout the brain in connections among neurons is called _____. |
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Connectionism (parallel distributed processing) |
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Auditory sensory memory is called ____ memory. |
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Within working memory, the ____ integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial scratch pad, and long-term memory. |
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The ____ phenomenon refers to the experience of a person being confident that he or she knows something, but not being able to retrieve the information from memory. |
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It is usually easier to remember things that come at the beginning of a list than to remember those that come in the middle of a list. This is called the ____ effect. |
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Viviedly remembering the specifics of an important event is called a(n) ____. |
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____ says that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade over time. |
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____ occurs when a persons forgets a painful memory, and then forgets that the memory ever existed in the first place. |
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A difficulty or lack of ability to form new long-term memories is called _____ amnesia. |
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Memory for personal events is known as ____ memory |
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Nondeclarative memory is also known as ____ memory |
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_____ is the process by which information gets into memory in the first place. |
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