Psychology 2301 Test #2 Review

Drugs that slow down the nervous system

Permit us to obtain a sense of depth and distance with just one eye

Learning is the result of watching, imitating, and modeling the behavior of others

Drugs that increase relaxation, induce euphoria, and relieve pain and anxiety

The rewarding closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

Stimulus added (+) to the environment that increases the behavior will be repeated

Stimulus removed (-) from the environment increases that a preceding behavior will be repeated

Perception is guided by: Higher-level knowledge, Experience, Expectations, Motivations

Drugs that have an arousal effect on the central nervous system

This person described the collective unconscious in dreaming, a part of the unconscious mind of all people

Application (+) of an unpleasant stimulus decreases the chance that a behavior will occur again

Learned technique for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness

Smallest intensity of a stimulus that must be present for it to be detected

Reinforcement is given only after a specific number of responses

Progression of recognizing and processing information from individual components of a stimuli

Theory that describes how we organize bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Biological processes that occur regularly on approximately a 24-hour cycle

Responsible for sharp focus and color perception in the eye

Removal (-) of a pleasant stimulus that decreases probability that a behavior will occur again

Your body's natural painkillers

Sorting, interpretation, analysis, & integration information from the senses

Disguised meanings of dreams, hidden by more obvious subjects

This produces no effect before it is paired in the conditioning process

Physical stimuli that consistently produce errors in perception

This type of drug produces changes in the perceptual process

An unlearned response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus

Activation of the sense organs by a source of physical energy

Awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings we experience at a given moment

Exact reason for sleep is unknown, but the most accepted theory states it helps with....

Something that naturally and automatically triggers a response in humans/animals.