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December exam review

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show The study of behaviour and mental processes (in humans and animals)  
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Methods of psychology   show
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show systematic observation= Field (naturalistic) observation, surveys, and "clinical" methods [**cannot explain anything, only describe]  
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Clinical Methods   show
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Tests   show
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Experimental drawbacks   show
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show systematic intervention= location, variables, characteristics:control and replication, and drawbacks  
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show age, motivation, intellectual, education, sex  
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show hearing, seeing, smelling (olfactory), taste (gustatory), skin, balance, kinaesthetic  
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Defining the term operationally   show
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demand characteristics   show
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show gave an example of how women who were and weren't given liquor and how the non-liquor drinkers got very drunk and the opposite didn't  
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show nothing other than the expectation that it will work does it actually  
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show group with the least done to it  
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show the "thing"  
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placebo   show
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replication   show
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variables   show
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independent variable   show
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dependent variable   show
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perceptual organization   show
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gestalts   show
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principles of figure-ground   show
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show can occur from conflicting information  
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show 25%  
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Stage 2 sleep   show
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show 5% (deepest sleep)  
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show 20% (deepest sleep) recuperative sleep and if awoken there will be a spastic movement, and confusion/disorientation  
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REM sleep   show
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medulla oblongata   show
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Why we dream   show
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DAMIT   show
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show represent desires free from the interference of the reality of the waking state  
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REM rebound   show
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nightmare   show
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show there is breathing difficulty, and is a stage 4 awakening  
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Methods of threshold determination   show
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Psychophysical Method   show
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show the study of the sensory consequences of controlled physical stimulation  
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show the smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer (not a constant value that changes from person-to-person and situation-to-situation)  
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show the smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuli are compared (JND-just noticeable difference)  
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Weber's law   show
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show 1) capacity/efficiency 2) stimulus intensity 3) motivation 4) expectation  
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show the accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patterns they produce (what makes our world perceptually stable)  
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learning   show
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association   show
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show BEOFRE:includes a unconditioned stimulus which causes an unconditioned response DURING:the unconditioned stimulus is paired with a conditioning response which causes the unconditioned response AFTER:the conditioned stimulus causes a conditioned response  
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show phobias  
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show objects which are similar to the conditioned stimulus may cause the same reaction (conditioned response) as the conditioned stimulus (ex. baby Albert becoming scared of furry things not just rats)  
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higher-order conditioning   show
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show the weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response; in classical conditioning, it occurs when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus (if experience is very traumatic extinction may never occur)  
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spontaneous recovery   show
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counter conditioning   show
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Operant (instrumental) conditioning   show
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operant responses are..   show
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show If you do something and you like the result you'll do it again. If you do something and you don't like the result you probably won't do it again  
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show decrease behaviour  
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show a reinforcement procedure in which a response is followed by the PRESENTATION of, or INCREASE in intensity of, a reinforcing stimulus; as a result, the response becomes stronger or more likely to occur (  
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show a decreased probability of responding  
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negative reinforcement   show
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skinner box   show
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schedules of reinforcement can be..   show
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Partial (intermittent) reinforcement schedules are..   show
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show fixed ratio and variable ratio  
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show fixed interval and variable interval  
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show occurs after a fixed number of behaviours (there is a post-reinforcement pause)  
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variable ratio   show
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reinforcement is and must..   show
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show antrograde & retrograde  
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show can only remember AFTER a certain point in time (usually due to a physical condition ex. head injury or old age)  
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two types of retrograde forgetting..   show
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show motivated or selected forgetting (Freud believed in this, an it is controversial)  
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show some memories simply diaper over time if they are not used (cannot say this for all memories)  
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distortion   show
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Two types of transfers..   show
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show forgetting previously learned material because of recently learned material - remembering of A is interfered with by more retaining of B (learn A, learn B, try to remember A)  
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show forgetting recently learned material because of previously learned material - remembering of B is interfered with by older memory of A (learn A, learn B, try to remember B)  
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stimulus discrimination   show
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positive & negative punishment both lead to..   show
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show the partial or complete loss of memory for important personal information  
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