Psy 201 Midterm 3

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consciousness

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a person's subjective experience of the world and the mind

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minimally conscious

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i.e. one gets poked while sleeping and rolls over

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hypnagogic state of consciousness

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when we begin to fall asleep

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REM sleep

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high amounts of brain activity

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circadian rhythm

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variation in physiological processes that cycle within approx. a 24 hr period, including the sleep-wake cycle

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somnambulism

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sleepwalking

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physchoactive drugs have their effects by altering

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the brains chemical system

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narcotics

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drugs that alleviate pain and induce lethargy

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% of adults that claim to have severe or frequent insomnia

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15%

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most common sleep disorder

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insomnia

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hypnosis

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an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feelings that one's actions are involuntary

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cocktail effect

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hearing ones name even when its not part of the relevant conversation

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memory

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the ability to store and retrieve information; also the storage of whats been learned or remembered

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encoding

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the process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory

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retrieval

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the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored into memory

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semantic judgments

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using meanings of terms in examples

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elaborative encoding

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actively relating new info to knowledge already in memory

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echoic memory

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replaying stuff heard in one's "minds ear"

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short-term memory

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seven items is the capacity

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rehearsal

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process of keeping info in short-term memory by mentally repeating it

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chunking

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combining small pieces of info into larger clusters

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tip-of-the-tongue; blocking

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knowing something but not being able to identify it

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state-dependent learning and recall

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listening to the same music while studying and taking the test

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long-term memory store

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location in which info can be kept for hours to years

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anterograde amnesia

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50 first dates: ten second tom

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implicit memory

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describes how tasks can be learned even if the person cannot explicitly remember when or where he learned the task

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procedural memory

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being able to remember how to do something without purposely thinking about the steps

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seven sins of memory

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transience; absent-mindedness; blocking; misattribution; consistency bias; persistence; suggestibility

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transience

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deterioration of memory over time

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suggestibility

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memories being influenced by the manner in which they are recalled

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absentmindedness

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forgetfulness due to lack of sufficient attention paid to something

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misattribution

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correct recollection of info with incorrect recollection of the source

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consistent bias

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one's current feelings and worldview distort remembrance of past events

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persistence

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unwanted recall of information that is disturbing

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priming

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exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later stimulus

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mnemonic device

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a method devised to remember information, such as a rhyme or acronym

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limit of items in short-term memory

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7, +/- 2

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schemas

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mental frameworks formed from our experiences with the world that help us interpret, store, and remember related experiences, concepts and behaviors