Unit 4 Psychology
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
