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Psychology
Test number 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2013

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Addiction
Definition
need or craving despite adverse consequences
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non-drug addictions
Definition
shopping-eating-exercising-TV-gambling
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biological
Definition
certain genetic factors; parents or twins who abuse
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social
Definition
low self esteem; stress; peer use
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psychoactive drug
Definition
chemical that alters perceptions and mood
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physical dependence
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phsysiological need for a drug; unpleasant withdraw symptoms
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phsychological dependence
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a phsychological need for a drug, i.e.- to relieve negitive emotions
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tolerance
Definition
need for larger doses to achieve same effect
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withdrawl
Definition
discomfort and distress with discontinued use
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depressants
Definition
reduce neural activity, slow body function. ex: alcohol, barbituates, opiates
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stimulants
Definition
excite neural activity, speed body functions. ex: caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines
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barbituates
Definition
depresss the central nervous system, reducing anxiety. ex: tranquilizers, sleeping pills
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psychoactive drugs
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barbituates and Hallucinogens

 

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Hallucinogens 

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psychedelic drugs causing one to see things that aren't there. ex: LSD, marijuana
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learning
Definition
relaticelt permanent change in behavior, experience is the key to learning
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classical conditioning
Definition
assosiate one thing with another
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operant conditioning
Definition
a behavior has a consequence
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observational learning
Definition
watch someone do something
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associative learning
Definition
learning that things occur together
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classical conditioning
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basic association.. ex: sea snail associates splash with a tail shock
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operant conditioning
Definition
a response and its consequenses (reward and punishment)
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behaviorism
Definition
viewed psychology as objective science, generally agreed. ONly behavior, no mental processes, not agreed.
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classical conditioning
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associate two stimuli. begins with a reflex, neutral stimulus paired with something evoking the reflex, neural stimulus eventually evokes reflex

ex: lightning and thunder- tone and food.

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unconditioned stimulus
Definition
automatically and naturally triggers response
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unconditioned respose
Definition
unlearned, automatic response to unconditioned stimulus
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conditioned stimulus
Definition
previously neutral stimulus that, through association with UCS, comes to trigger a condtional response
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conditioned response
Definition
learned response to preciously neural CS
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spontaneous recovery
Definition
reappearance of an extinguished CR
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generalization
Definition
stimuli similar to CS to evoke similar responses
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extinction
Definition
diminishing of a CR, classical conditioning ( when UCS does not follow CS) in operant conditioning ( when response in no longer reinforced)
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memory
Definition
persistance of learning over time via the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
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flashbulb memory
Definition
ex. birthday, 911, engagement
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explicit memory
Definition
episodic or semantic
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episodic
Definition
things that happen to you. Autobiographical, the storeis of your life
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sematic
Definition
names,dates,facts. the things you learn in class
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implicit memory
Definition
skills, procedures, habits. largely automatic. ex. walking, talking, driving. often want to change explicits to implicits
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encoding
Definition
processing of information into the memory system
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storage
Definition
retraining encoded information over time
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retrieval
Definition
getting information out of memory
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Sensory Memory
Definition
the initial recording of sensory information. Ex: what did that person who walked by look like?
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short term memory
Definition
activated memort that holds a few item breifly. ex: phone numbers, new names. AKA working memory
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long term memory
Definition
relatively permanent and limitless storehouse. ex: memorized friends passwords, movie lines
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automatic processing
Definition
unconscious encoding, well-learned information (word meanings), can learn(reading backwards
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effortful processing
Definition
rehearsal-ex:repeating a phone number till you know it, includes maintenance and elaborative
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maintenance processing
Definition
simple definitions-ex: matching questions on a test, 2+2=4
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elaborative
Definition
relating focal information into other things. ex: essay questions on a test
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sematic encoding
Definition
meaning, how is a word related to another word
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acoustic encoding
Definition
sound, what you hear
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visual encoding
Definition
images
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eidetic memory
Definition
aka photographic. everything, or at least too much, gets in. rarely documented
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chunking
Definition
organizing items into smaller units. Often occurs automatically. ex: acronyms
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