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PY 101 Exam Question and answers verified to pass PY 101 Exam #2 absolute threshold - correct answer the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time accommodation - correct answer process which eye`s lens changes shape to focus near or far objects o...

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PY 101 Exam #2
absolute threshold - correct answer ✔the minimum stimulation needed to
detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time


accommodation - correct answer ✔process which eye`s lens changes shape
to focus near or far objects on retina


achievement test - correct answer ✔A test designed to assess what a person
has learned


acquisition - correct answer ✔in classical conditioning, initial stage, when
one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral
stimulus begins triggering conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the
strengthening of a reinforced response


algorithm - correct answer ✔A methodical, logical rule or procedure that
guarantees solving a particular problem.


amplitude - correct answer ✔determines intensity of the color


anterograde amnesia - correct answer ✔An inability to form new memories.


aphasia - correct answer ✔impairment of language caused by left
hemisphere damage to either Brocas area(impairment speaking) or wernickes
area(impairment understanding)


aptitude test - correct answer ✔A test designed to predict a person's future
performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.

,associative learning - correct answer ✔learning that certain events occur
together. events may be two stimuli (as in classic conditioning) or a response
and its consequences ( as in operant conditioning)


audition - correct answer ✔sense or act of hearing


automatic processing - correct answer ✔unconscious encoding of incidental
information


availability heuristic - correct answer ✔Estimating the likelihood of events
based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we
presume such events are common


babbling stage - correct answer ✔Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of
speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds
at first unrelated to the household language


behaviorism - correct answer ✔view that psychology 1. should be an
objective science 2. that studies behavior without reference to mental
processes. Most research psychologist today agree with 1 but not 2


belief perseverance - correct answer ✔Clinging to one's initial conceptions
after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited


binocular cues - correct answer ✔depth cues, such as retinal disparity,
depend on the use of two eyes


blind spot - correct answer ✔point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye,
creating a "blind" spot because no receptor cells are located there

, bottom-up processing - correct answer ✔analysis that begins with the
sensory receptors and works up to the brain`s integration of sensory
information


brocas area - correct answer ✔controls language expression-area of the
frontal lobe in left hemisphere that directs muscle movements invloved in
speech


chunking - correct answer ✔organizing items into familiar manageable units
often occurs automatically


clairvoyance - correct answer ✔percieving remote events ex: such as a
house on fire in another state


classical conditioning - correct answer ✔type of learning which one learns to
link two or more stimuli and anticipate events


cochlea - correct answer ✔coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear,
sound waves travel through cochlear fluid trigger nerve impluses


cochlear implant - correct answer ✔device for converting sounds into
electrical signals and stimulating auditory nerve through electrodes threaded
into the cochlea


cognition - correct answer ✔All the mental activities associated with thinking,
knowing, remembering, and communicating.


cognitive learning - correct answer ✔acquisition of mental information,
whether by observing events, watching others, or through language

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