psych exam 2
most popular drug on college campuses is
alcohol
____ memories concern generalized knowledge.
semantic
three stages of memory
sensory, short term, long term
in his classic study of transcendental meditation, benson found that mediation lead to
a relaxation response
Elyse is a college student who has developed a tolerance to heroin and experiences withdrawal symptoms whenever she doesn't have a "fix" at least every 8 hours. she feels that she has lost control and has to organize her life around her habit. she would be classified as having?
a substance use disorder
biological or physiological symptoms use disorder include tolerance and an _____ syndrome earn one discontinues use of the substance
abstinence
according to the ____ -synthesis model, dress reflect neural activity
activation
while attempting to identify neural receptors that trigger salivary glands, Ivan Pavlov inadvertently found that responses can be learned through
association
Consciousness has several meanings, including sensory awareness, the selective aspect of attention, direct inner_______, personal unity, and the waking state.
awareness
Allegra is said to have hypnotic suggestibility. She is likely to
be prone to fantasy
which of the following are children most likely to "outgrow"?
bed wetting
_____ id a stimulant that boots self-confidence but also triggers rises in blood pressure and constricts the coronary arteries.
cocaine
according to ____ theory, learning occurs because a CS indicates that the UCS is likely to follow
contingency
a substance use disorder is characterized by loss of _______ over the use of substance
control
memories of the events that happen to a person are ____ memories
episodic
The notion that animals that are most at risk from predators sleep less is taken from which of the following perspectives
evolutionary
Repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) without the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) will
extinguish the (CR)
during a typical eight-hour night, we undergo (how many?)_____ trips through the different stages of sleep
five
in a _______-_______ schedule, a specific amount of time must elapse since a previous correct response before reinforcement again becomes available
fixed interval
in the behavior-therapy method of _____, a client is continuously exposed to a fear evoking stimulus until the fear response is distinguished
flooding
_____ substances distort perceptions
hallucinogen
which of the following statements is correct concerning brain waves and the sleep cycle?
high-frequency brains waves are associated with being awake.
When a behavior is followed by negative reinforcement, the behavior is likely to
increase
subconscious learning
latent learning
according to behaviorists, ____ is a relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior that occurs because of expiernce.
learning
In meditation, one focuses on a ____ to alter the normal person-environment relationship.
mantra
____ reinforcers increase the probability that pedants will occur when they are removed.
negative
Because EEG patterns during REM sleep resemble those of the waking state, REM sleep is also called ____ sleep.
paradoxical
when we say that we are "conscious of" seeing something or hearing a sound, we are referring to consciousness as ______
sensory awareness
Extinguished responses often show ______ recovery as a function of the passage of time
spontaneous
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which people are suggestible & behave as though they are in a ____
trance
Slot machines reward gamblers with money according to which reinforcement schedule?
variable ratio