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Your awareness of everything that is going on around you. |
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Brief sidesteps into sleep lasting only a few seaconds |
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What are some of the consequences of missing sleep? |
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Concentration problems, trouble doing simple tasks |
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What are some of the signs of sleep deprivation? |
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Significant loss of sleep and irritability |
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How much sleep do we need? |
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Know the common sleep disorders. |
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Nightmares, insomnia, sleep apnea, Narcolepsy |
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In what stage does sleepwalking occur |
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Physical symptoms that include pain, nausea, tremors resulting from lack of active drug in system |
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Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience |
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What is classical conditioning |
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Learning to make involuntary (reflex)response to a stimulus other than the original |
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Who studied classical conditioning |
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What is spontaneous recovery |
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The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred |
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How does higher-order conditioning occur |
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When a strong conditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus, |
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What are some examples of conditioned emotional responses |
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Fear of dogs, seeing a attractive person |
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What is vicarious conditioning |
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Classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotion by watching the reaction of another person |
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What was the theory that Thorndike developed from his puzzle box experiments |
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Law of effect if a action is followed by a pleasurable experience it will be repeated |
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Small steps toward some ultimate goal are reinforced until the goal is reached |
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What are the steps in behavior modification |
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Select a target behavior, choose a reinforcer, give the child a reward |
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The idea the learning could happen without reinforcement and than later affect behavior |
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What was the Tolman's experiment that discovered latent learning |
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What are the four elements needed for observational learning |
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Attention, memory, imitation, motivation |
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An Active system that receives information from senses then stores it away |
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What are the three processes of memory |
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Encoding, Storage , Retrieval |
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What are the models of memory |
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1.information processing
2.Parallel distributed processing
3.levels of processing
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What are the two types of sensory memory |
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An active system that processes the information in STM |
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What is the capacity of short term memory |
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Holds about seven plus or minus two chunks without rehearsal |
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How is information lost from STM |
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Failure to rehearse, decay |
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Why is rote learning not recommended |
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You have to remember it the way you learned it |
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What are the different types of LTM. |
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Declarative and Procedural |
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What are flashbulb memories? |
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Type of encoding that occurs because an unepected event. 9/11, JFK death |
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What does distributed practice teach us about studying? |
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That if you space your study time out you will likely remember it |
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Loss of memory due to passage of time |
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Memory problems when older information interfers with the retrieval of newer information |
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Know the different types of amnesia. |
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Retrograde, anterograde infantile, autobiographical memory |
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What is secondary reinforcer |
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Any reinforcer that becomes paired with a primary reinforcer such as tokens and gold stars |
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Memory problems when newer information interfers with the retrieval of older information |
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What are the sleep stages |
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None Rem Stage 1 light sleep
None Rem Stage 2 Spindles
None Rem Stage 3 &4 Delta waves roles in |
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How do babies and adults differ in amount of REM |
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Nearly 50% of infants sleep in REM sleep compared to only about 20% of adults |
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what is the difference between nightmares and night terrors |
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Nightmares are dreams night terrors are fears |
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What some of the common causes of insomnia? |
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Anxiety, caffeine ,indigestion |
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What are the stages of hypnosis |
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1 person tells to focus on what is being said
2 told to relax
3 let go
4 use vivid imagination
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How does alcohol affect our brain |
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Your brain becomes more inhibited depressed and slowed down |
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What are the signs of alcohol abuse |
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Lying about drinking, passing out, binge drinking |
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Where do we store memories in the brain |
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Know the different types of amnesia. |
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Retrograde, anterograde infantile, autobiographical memory |
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What are some of the causes of amnesia |
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Concussions, alcoholism, aging of the brain |
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What is the typical progression of Alzheimer's Disease |
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Begins with anterograde then retrograde |
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Altered states of consciousness? |
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Occurs when there is a shift in the quality or pattern of your mental activity |
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Drugs that alter perceptions and my cause hallucinations (Marijuana ) |
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Drugs that decreased the functioning of the nervous system(alcohol) |
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Drugs that increase the functioning of the nervous system (Nicotine) |
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Painkilling drugs derived from opium poppy (Morphine) |
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What are primary reinforcers |
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Any reinforcer that is naturally reinforcing by meeting a basic need such a hunger, thirst or touch |
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What are some examples of altered states of consciousness? |
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Driving to school or work and wondering how you got there, daydreaming, hypnotized |
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