Psychology 1101 Exam 2 Questions
And Answers 2024 Update
consciousness ANS✔✔ Difference levels of awareness of one's thoughts and feelings
Automatic Process ANS✔✔ "implicit" thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness,
roughly corresponds to "intuition"
Unconscious Memory ANS✔✔ All memories that one is unable to bring to conscious awareness. Can
only be retrieved through therapy, hypnosis and with certain substances that alter the awareness. They
also may emerge in dreams. (Implicit)
REM Sleep ANS✔✔ A stage of sleep that occurs approximately every 90 minutes, marked by bursts of
rapid eye movements occurring under closed eyelids, REM seep periods are associated with dreaming.
Insomnia ANS✔✔ Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Hypnotic Analgesia ANS✔✔ The reduction of pain or anxiety through hypnosis in people who are
susceptible to hypnosis.
Imagine Perception ANS✔✔ In hypnosis, the participants willingness, at the hypnotists suggestion, to
respond to nonexistent stimuli and imaginary perceptions. It can also include weird behavior.
Addiction ANS✔✔ A pattern of compulsive seeking of a substance and an uncontrollable need to use
that becomes more important than almost everything else in a person's life.
Withdrawal ANS✔✔ A pattern of uncomfortable or painful physical symptoms and cravings experienced
by the user when the level of drug is decreased or the drug is eliminated.
, Stimulants ANS✔✔ Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine,
and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions causing feelings of euphoria
Marijuana ANS✔✔ Psychoactive drug whose primary active ingredient is THC, which is found in the
leaves of a cannabis plant
Minnesota Model ANS✔✔ Step 1. Admit problem Step 2. Enter Program Step 3. Get therapy 4. Stay
Sober
Cognitive Learning ANS✔✔ Form of altering behavior that involves mental processes and may result
from observation or imitation.
Neutral Stimulus ANS✔✔ A stimulus that, before conditioning, does not naturally bring about the
response of interest.
Conditioned Response ANS✔✔ In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral
(but now conditioned) stimulus (CS). Salivation in Pavlov
Discrimination ANS✔✔ In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned
stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
Taste Aversion Learning ANS✔✔ a form of learning in which an organism learns to avoid a taste after
just one pairing of that taste with illness
Skinner Box ANS✔✔ An enclosure in which an experimenter can shape the behavior of an animal by
controlling reinforcement and accurately measuring the responses of the animal
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