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Psych 101
exam 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/07/2011

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Freud
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Wish fulfillment: manifest content (what it looks like on surface) and latent content (what it symbolizes)
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Cartwright
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Info Processing
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Hobson and McCarley
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Activation synthesis: random neurons firing that trigger thoughts and experiences
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resetting the biological clock
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retina detects light->sends message to hypothalamus->Suprachiasmic nucleus (SCN) sends message to pineal gland->pineal gland releases melatonin->melatonin adjusts clock
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EEG
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Electroenphalograph: measures brain waves
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Sleep cycle: awake
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Beta: low voltage high frequency
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Sleep cycle: drowsy
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alpha waves dominate
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Sleep cycle: stage 1
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Theta, few minutes long
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Sleep cycle: stage 2
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sleep spindles mixed waves--20 minutes
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Sleep cycle: stage 3 and 4
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Delta waves dominate (high voltage, low frequency)--30 minutes
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Sleep cycle: REM
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low voltage, high frequency--most dreaming
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3 functions of sleep
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protective, restorative, and growth
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theories of dreaming
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Wish fulfillment, info processing, and activation synthesis
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Bandura
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Bobo doll study; observational learning; need attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation
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Skinner
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skinner's rats; reinforcement and punishment
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Pavlov
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conditioned reflexes
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Classical conditioning
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unconditioned stimulus->unconditioned response; conditioned stimulus->conditioned response
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Stimulus generation
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conditioned response "spreads" to similiar stimuli
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Stimulus discrimination
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conditioned response is restricted to specific stimuli
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Acquisition
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form a new conditioned response
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Extinction
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banish a conditioned response
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Spontaneous recovery
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conditioned response reappears after extinction and non-exposure
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Higher-order conditioning
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conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus
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Reinforcement schedules
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continuous and intermittent
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Operant conditioning
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a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences
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Primary reinforcement
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food, temp, water, etc.
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Secondary reinforcement
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money; something associated with a primary reinforcement
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Shaping
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rewarding approximations towards behavior (getting warmer)
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positive reinforcement
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give something pleasant
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negative reinforcement
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remove something unpleasant
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Positive punishment
Definition
give something unpleasant
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Negative punishment
Definition
remove something pleasant
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criteria for observational learning
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attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation
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Instinctive drift
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when instincts interfere with conditioned responses
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Conditioned taste aversion
Definition
condition a bad taste with something
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three kinds of processing
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encoding (forming a memory code), storage (put in proper place in brain), and retrieval (how many times you practice)
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Schemas
Definition
general structure of knowledge
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Serial effects
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primary effects: remember 1st one better; recency effects: remember most recent best
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Sensory memory
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couple seconds
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working/short term memory
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limited, magic 7, 20 seconds
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long term memory
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unlimited
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Structural problems
Definition
looking for relationships
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Arrangement problems
Definition
arrange parts of a problem to satisfy criteria
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Transformation problems
Definition
sequence of transformations to reach goal (water jug problem)
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functional fixedness
Definition
When we only think of typical use for an object
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Mental set
Definition
When we think of a solution that works so we can't see beyond it for a simpler soultion
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Unnecessary constraints
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We constrain ourselves in ways that are not necessary
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6 approaches to problem solving
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trial and error, heuristics (rules of thumb), forming subgroups, working backward, search for analogies, change the representation
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Retro grade amnesia
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the loss of memories for events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia
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Antero grade amnesia
Definition
the loss of memories for events that occur after onset of amnesia
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risky decision making
Definition
cost and benefit and the probabalities of those cost and benefits
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Declaritive memory
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system handles factual information
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Availability bias
Definition
estimate probability of event by the ease of which it comes to mind
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Representativeness bias
Definition
something is more representative is more likely (mix rather than straight run on heads or tails)
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Ignoring base rates
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Think Bob is librarian because of stereotypes even though there are more salesman than librarians statistically
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Conjunction fallacy
Definition
Two events occurring together is more likely than just one
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Gambler's fallacy
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Thinking that what happened before is going to affect an independent event
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Ignoring sample size
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Use most reliable sample size rather than ratio
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Semantic memory
Definition
contains general knowledge that is not tied to the time when the info was learned
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Whorf
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Linguistic Relativity (the number of words for one single thing, the more complexly you can think of that concept
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Skinner
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Behaviorists (imitation and reinforcement
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Chomski
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Nativists (innate language acquisition device, original sentences, overregularizations)
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Criteria for language
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symbolic (arbitrary symbols that have a consensus meaning, infinitely generative, and structured (has to have structure of grammar
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Phonemes
Definition
Smallest segment of sound
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Morphemes
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Smallest component of word that has semantic meaning
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Syntax
Definition
Rules we use to combine phrases in sentences
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Vocab spurt
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18 months
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Babbling
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develops muscles in mouth, lips, face etc to pronounce sounds
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Holophrases
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single word sentences
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Telegraphic speech
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A phrase used to convey an entire sentence (usually ust noun and verb)
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Metalinguistic awareness
Definition
Cognitive realization; ability to reflect on use of language
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