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PSU Psychology 100 Exam 2 (Crosby)

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Absolute Threshold   Least Energy for correct stimulus to detect 50% of the Time.  
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Just Noticeable Difference   Smallest difference between two thing can be detected 50% of the time -difference in two weight  
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Top-down Processing   experience/expectations -listening to your favorite song bc you know how you'll feel -past experiences -Perception  
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Bottom-up Processing   Making new sense of new material -hearing a new song for the first time  
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Perception   Method which by sensations are interpreted and organized -two types: Top-Down and Bottom-Up  
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Sensation   Activation of receptors in various sense organs- allowing outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain  
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Habituation Adaptation   tendency for brain to stop realizing constant unchanging stimuli -Ex; fans, clock ticking, sounds that will fade  
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Sensory Adaptation   sensory receptors less responsive to constant stimuli -Ex;being cold in a pool goes away after a little while -getting used to smell of cigarette smoke after being in room -touch/taste/smell  
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Order That Light Travels in Eye   Cornea Iris Pupil Lens Retina (CIP LR)  
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Cornea   1st stop of light focus's on light coming in  
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Iris   muscle that controls size of pupil  
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Pupil   When light enters interior of the eye  
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Lens   helps to focus light to the retina  
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Visual Accommodation   When the lens change shape to focus in on something  
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Retina   -Contains photo receptor cells -light gets covered to electrical impulses -3 Layers  
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3 Layers of the Retina   1) Light passes through ganglion and bipolar cells 2)reaches and stimulates rods and cones 3)Nerve impulses from rods and cones travel alone a nerve pathway to the brain  
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How does light become a Impulse   Light Sensory Impulse Visual Cortex in occipital lobe then decisions are made  
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Dark Adaption   recovery of the eyes sensitivity to visual stimuli in darkness after exposure to light (Light to Dark) -Involved with Rods  
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Light Adaptation   recovery of the eyes sensitivity to visual stimuli in light after exposure to darkness (Dark to Light) -happens really quickly within a matter of seconds -Involved with Cones  
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After image   visual sensations that persist after initial stimulus has been removed  
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Thrichromatic Theory   Three colors- blue green red firing rates of cones and color based on how much of each of the colored cones are activated  
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Opponent Process Theory   Four colors- yellow blue green red red&green blue&yellow -more accepted today  
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Color Blindness   -caused by defective cones in the retina of the eye  
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Monochrome Blindness   -can only see black and white -very rare  
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Protanopia   most common red/green color blindness lack of functioning red cones  
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Tritanopia   blue/yellow blindness lack of functioning blue cones  
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Why do more males suffer from color blindness?   -recessive trait is in X sex chromosome -females need two but males only need one  
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Touch   severe sensation originating in several different parts in the body ** happens in parental lobe ***  
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Kinesthetic Sense   -location of body parts in relation to each other  
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Vestibular Senses   movement/body position/balance  
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Motion Sickness   Same disagreement with what our body feels and what our eyes see  
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The Basics of Perception   how we organize and make sense of things  
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Perceptual Constancy   Tendency to perceive things a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions  
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Gestalt Principles   Figure Ground, proximity, Similarity, Closure, Continuity, Contiguity, Common Area  
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Depth Perception   ability to perceive world in 3 dimensions  
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Molecular cues   cues for perceiving depth based on one eye  
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Binocular Cues   cues for perceiving depth based on two eyes  
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Convergence   rotation of eyes to focus on one single subject  
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Binocular disparity   eyes don't see same image bc of the distance they are from echother  
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Illusions   Perception that does not respond to reality  
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Learning   a relatively permament change in behavior or thought due to an experience and practice  
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Pavlov's Classical Conditioning   Learning to make involuntary response to a stimulus normal- Pavlov's Dogs  
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Basic Principles in Classical Conditioning   -conditioned stimulus must come before unconditioned (Bell Before food) -has to occur in a timely manner -must be repeated to be learned -new conditioned stimulus must be unique  
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Stimulus Generation   Tendency to respond with conditioned response to something that is only similar so the stimulus (Dogs salvating to a similar tone)  
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Stimulus Discrimination   Tendency to stop making this generalized response because the similar stimulus is NEVER paired with the real conditioned stimuli  
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High-Order Conditioning   occurs when a strong stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus causing the neutral stimulus to become a second conditioned stimulus  
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Conditional Emotional Responses   emotional response that has become classically conditioned by stimuli -advertisement of things that make you happy so you are happy when u watch it  
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Vicarious Conditioning   watching something happen but creating a conditioned response from it even though it isn't happening to you -Seeing kids crying getting a shot and you start crying before you get your shot  
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Conditioned Taste Aversion   development of nausea in response to a specific taste since the taste was one followed by a bad experience -(Oreo Fudge)  
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Biological Preparedness   Tendency of animals to learn certain associates with only one or a few pairings due to the survival value of learning  
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Pavlov beleived classical conditioning worked because..   stimulus substitution  
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Rods   Greys, blacks, whites, dim vision -Dark Adaptation  
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Expectancy   When a dog heres a bell..... It expects food..... so dog salivates  
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Operant Conditioning   Voluntary behavior learned through consequences  
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Thorndikes Law of Effect   response followed by pleasurable consequences are repeated  
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BF Skinner   Operant Conditioning studied observable measurable behavior learning depends on the consequences  
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Reinforcement   ANY consequence that make a response more likely is called reinforcement -causes INCREASE in behavior  
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Positive Reinforcement   ADDing or giving for a good thing (giving money if you get good grades)  
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Negative Reinforcement   Taking away for a good thing (taking away chores if you get a good grade)  
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Partial Reinforcement   reinforcement after some but not all correct responses -stronger response  
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Continuous Reinforcement   constant reinforcement after every good behavior is preformed -good for learning new responses  
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Partial Reinforcement Ratio   how many times you respond  
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Partial Reinforcement Interval   how much time in-between responses  
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Fixed Ratio Reinforcement   same response--> same reinforcement for every 5 toys made, 20$ recieved  
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Variable Ratio Reinforcement   # of responses until reinforcements varies participant rapid rate without pauses (SLOT MACHINES- you don't know when they will pay out)  
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Fixed Interval   Always same time before reinforcement opportunity -long pauses after reinforcement  
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Variable Interval   Reinforcement possibilities after varying amounts of time -slower steady rates w/ out pauses (Fishing)  
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Punishment   Any consequence that make a response less likely to occur  
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Positive Punishment   Adding unpleasant stimulus (Adding Chores, Spanking, Speeding Ticket)  
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Negative Punishment   -taking away pleasant stimulus (Taking away phone, car keys, or things you like)  
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Punishment Problems/Drawbacks   -Fear/Anxiety -Lying -Avoidance -Modeling of Aggression  
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Shaping   reinforcement of simple steps, leading to a desired, more complex behavior  
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Discrimination   understanding why punishment is different in things  
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Generalization   Apply things that work in one thing to other things  
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Cognitive Learning Theory   early days of learning- focused on behavior 1950's and 1960's- increase mental events  
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Tolmans Latent Learning   Learning that is hidden until its application becomes reinforced -tolmans rats :latent learning -difference groups with different reinforcement so different outcomes  
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Insight Learning   -Kohler -Sudeen perception of relationship among various parts of the problem allowing solution of problem to come quickly -worked with chimpanzees  
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Learned Helplessness   Tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of repeated failures  
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Restorative Theory   Make us feel good and better  
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Memory Consolidation   figures out what we retain while we sleep  
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Dreams   Provide access to the unconscious. Include manifest and latent content. -Happens during REM sleep  
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Manifest Content   The actual content of the dream  
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Latent Content   The hidden meaning of the dream  
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Narcolepsy   person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without warning  
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Insomnia   Inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get good quality sleep  
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Nightmares   Bad dreams arousing feelings of horror, helplessness, extreme sorrow, etc. (occurs during REM sleep-Second Half of The Night)  
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REM Behavior Disorder   Mechanism that typically blocks the movement of voluntary muscles fails, allowing the person to thrash around and get up and act out nightmares  
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Sleep Apnea   Person stops breathing for short periods of sleep  
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REM SLEEP   Eyes move under eyelids, increase in body functions, 90% of dreaming, REM paralysis  
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REM sleep   Eyes move under eyelids, increase in body functions, 90% of dreaming, REM paralysis  
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Stage 1 Rem Sleep   Light sleep, hypnic jerk, hypnagogic images  
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Stage 2 Rem Sleep   Temperature, breathing, and heart rate decrease, sleep spindles  
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Stage 3 Rem Sleep   Growth hormones released, hard to wake up  
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Night Terrors   Attacks of extreme fear that the victim has while sound asleep. (Non-REM- First third of the night)  
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Sleep Walking   Occurs during deep sleep (stage 3). Moving around or walking in ones sleep @  
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