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35 Cards in this Set
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Hypnosis
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A systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility
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Insomnia
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Chronic problems in getting adequate sleep
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Latent Content
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According to Freud, the hidden or disguised meaning of the events in a dream
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Manifest content
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According to Freud, the plot of a dream at a surface level.
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MDMA
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A compound drug relates to both amphetamines and hallucinogens, especially mescaline; commonly called "ecstasy"
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Meditation
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A family of mental exercises in which a conscious atempt is made to focus attention in a nonanalytical way.
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Narcolepsy
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a disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods
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Narcotics
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drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain
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Non Rem sleep
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sleep stages 1 through 4, which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements, relatively little dreaming and varied EEG activity.
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Physical dependence
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The condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness.
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pyschoactive drugs
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Chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning
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Psychological dependence
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The condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug in order to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for the drug.
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Discriminative Stimuli
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Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences of a response.
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Elicit
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To draw out of bring forth
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Emit
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to send forth
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Escape learning
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A type of learning in which an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation.
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Extinction
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The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency
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Fixed interval schedule
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A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given for the 1st response that occurs after a fixed time interval has elapsed.
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Fixed ratio schedule
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A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses.
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Higher-order conditioning
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A type of conditioning in which a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus.
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Intermittent reinforcement
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A reinforcement schedule in which a designated response is reinforced only some of the time.
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Learning
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A relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience.
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Negative reinforcement
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The strenghtening of a response b/c it is followed by the removal of an aversive (unpleasant) stimulus.
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Observational learning
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A type of learning that occurs when an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others, who are called models.
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Operant Conditioning
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A form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequencs .
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Classical Conditioning
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A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
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Elaboration
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Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding.
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Encoding
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Forming a memory code
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Encoding specificity principle
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The idea that the value of a retrieval cue depends on how well it corresponds to the memory code.
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Episodic memory system
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Chronological, or temporally dated, recollections of personal experiences.
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Explicit memory
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intentional recollection of previous experiences.
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Flashbulb memories
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Unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events.
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Forgetting curve
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A graph showing retention and forgetting over time.
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Hindsight bias
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The tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out.
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Implicit memory
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Type of memory apparent when retention is exhibited on a task that does not require intentional remembering.
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