Unit 4 Psychology

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acquire

to gain or obtain for yourself

intentional learning

deliberately placing information into your mind

rote

from memory

shaping

giving reinforcement to the smaller behaviors that eventually make up the new behavior

stimulus

anything that causes a response

interference

anything that inhibits your brains ability to remember

category

a grouping of concepts

morpheme

a meaningful unit of language (words)

hierachy

a ranking system

false memory

a recovered memory that is not true

reinforcement

an event that encourages behavior to happen again

concept

an idea or thought

consciousness

awareness of your existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings

performance

carrying out or acting on an expectation or duty

punishment

event that creates likelihood that a behavior will be stopped

chunking

grouping items into smaller segments

insomnia

inability to fall or stay asleep

retrograde amnesia

inability to remember events that happened prior to the brain injury

anterograde amnesia

inability to store long-term memories

deprivation

lacking; going without

observational learning

learning by watching other people

classical conditioning

learning new associations by pairing two stimuli

vicarious

learning through the experience of others without actually doing the action

incidental learning

learning which occurs without intention

mnemonic device

memory tricks to give you cues and aid your ability to retrieve information

analogical representation

mental pictures that have a direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about.

symbolic representation

mental pictures that have no direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about

sensory memory

momentary storage of information

repression

moving difficult information from the conscious to the unconscious mind

hippocampus

part of the brain that aids long-term memory

modeling

patterning your behavior after someone else

long-term memory

permanent storage of information

REM

rapid eye moment; stage of sleep during which a person dreams

learning

relatively permanent changes of behavior resulting from experience

recovered memory

remembering long-forgotten memories with someone's help

operant conditioning

repeating behaviors based on outcome

short-term memory

temporary storage of information

manifest content

the aspects of a dream or fantasy that you remember

phoneme

the basic unit of meaning (letters and sounds)

latent content

the hidden aspects of a dream that you must figure out

encoding

the process of placing information into the mind

decode

to figure out or unscramble hidden meaning

perception

understanding something through your mind or the senses

conception

your personal interpretation of your senses or thoughts

interpretation

your personal meaning given to places, events, situations, and people

rehearsal

a form of practice to keep information in the memory


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