The Mind At Work
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| Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | The state of transition between wakefulness and sleep, characterized by relatively rapid, low-amplitude brain waves
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| show | A sleep deeper than that of stage 1, characterized by a slower, more regular wave pattern, along with momentary interruptions of sleep spindles
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| show | The deepest stage of sleep, during which we are least responsive to outside stimulation
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| show | Sleep occupying 20 percent of an adult’s sleeping time, characterized by increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate; erections (in males); eye movements; and the experience of dreaming
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| Unconscious Wish Fulfillment Theory | show 🗑
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| Latent Content of Dreams | show 🗑
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| Manifest Content of Dreams | show 🗑
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| show | The theory suggesting that dreams permit information that is critical for our daily survival to be reconsidered and reprocessed during sleep
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| show | J. Allan Hobson’s theory that the brain produces random electrical energy during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep that stimulates memories stored in the brain
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| Circadian Rhythm | show 🗑
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| Hypnosis | show 🗑
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| Meditation | show 🗑
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| show | Drugs that influence a person’s emotions, perceptions, and behavior
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| Addictive Drugs | show 🗑
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| Stimulants | show 🗑
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| Depressants | show 🗑
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| Narcotics | show 🗑
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| Learning | show 🗑
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| Classical Conditioning | show 🗑
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| show | A stimulus that, before conditioning, does not naturally bring about the response of interest
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| show | A stimulus that naturally brings about a particular response without having been learned
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| show | A response that is natural and needs no training (e.g., salivation at the smell of food)
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| show | A once-neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus to bring about a response formerly caused only by the unconditioned stimulus
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| show | A response that, after conditioning, follows a previously neutral stimulus (e.g., salivation at the ringing of a bell)
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| Extinction | show 🗑
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| Spontaneous Recovery | show 🗑
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| Stimulus Generalization | show 🗑
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| Stimulus Discrimination | show 🗑
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| show | Learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on the response’s favorable or unfavorable consequences
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| Reinforcement | show 🗑
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| Reinforcer | show 🗑
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| Positive Reinforcer | show 🗑
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| show | An unpleasant stimulus whose removal leads to an increase in the probability that a preceding response will be repeated in the future
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| Punishment | show 🗑
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| Schedules of Reinforcement | show 🗑
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| show | A schedule in which behavior is reinforced every time the behavior occurs
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| show | Reinforcing of a behavior some but not all of the time
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| Fixed-Ratio Schedule | show 🗑
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| show | A schedule in which reinforcement occurs after an average number of responses, but the reinforcement schedule is unpredictable
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| Fixed-Interval Schedule | show 🗑
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| show | A schedule by which the time between reinforcements varies around some average rather than being fixed
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| show | The process of teaching a complex behavior by rewarding closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
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| show | A formalized technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones
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| Cognitive Learning Theory | show 🗑
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| Latent Learning | show 🗑
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| show | A mental representation of spatial locations and directions
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| Observational Learning | show 🗑
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| Cognitive Psychology | show 🗑
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| Memory | show 🗑
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| show | The initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant
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| show | Memory that holds information for 15 to 25 seconds
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| show | Memory that stores information on a relatively permanent basis, although it may be difficult to retrieve
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| Chunk | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of information that has entered short-term memory
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| Declarative Memory | show 🗑
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| show | Memory for skills and habits, such as riding a bike or hitting a baseball, sometimes referred to as nondeclarative memory or implicit memory
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| Semantic Memory | show 🗑
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| show | Memory for events that occur in a particular time, place, or context
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| show | The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows—a result of the difficulty of retrieving information from long-term memory
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| show | Memory task in which specific information must be retrieved
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| Recognition | show 🗑
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| show | The theory of memory that emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed
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| Explicit Memory | show 🗑
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| show | Memories of which people are not consciously aware, but which can affect subsequent performance and behavior
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| show | Memories centered on a specific, important, or surprising event that are so vivid it is as if they represented a snapshot of the event (like remembering where you were and what you were doing on 9/11)
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| show | Processes in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events
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| Schemas | show 🗑
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| show | Our recollections of circumstances and episodes from our own lives
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| Decay | show 🗑
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| Interference | show 🗑
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| Cue-Dependent Forgetting | show 🗑
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| Proactive Interference | show 🗑
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| Retroactive Interference | show 🗑
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| Thinking | show 🗑
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| Mental Images | show 🗑
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| Concepts | show 🗑
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| show | Typical, highly representative samples of a concept
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| Algorithm | show 🗑
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| show | A thinking strategy that may lead us to a solution to a problem or decision, but—unlike algorithms—may sometimes lead to errors
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| Means-Ends Analysis | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use
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| show | The communication of information through symbols arranged according to systematic rules
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| Babble | show 🗑
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| show | Sentences in which only essential words are used, typically including only nouns and verbs
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| show | The phenomenon by which children overapply a language rule, thereby making a linguistic error (like adding -ed to walk to create "walked", and adding -ed to run to create "runned")
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| Learning-Theory Approach to Language Development | show 🗑
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| Nativist Approach (to Language Development) | show 🗑
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| show | Noam Chomsky’s theory that all the world’s languages share a common underlying structure
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| Language-Acquisition Device | show 🗑
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| show | The view that language development is produced through a combination of genetically determined predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language
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| show | The hypothesis that language shapes and helps determine the way people perceive and understand the world
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