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The reappearance, after a time lapse, of an extinguished CR is called

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Spontaneous recovery

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Explicit memory is also known as

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Declarative memory

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Dating partners who fall in love tend to ____ how much they liked each other when they first met. Dating partners who break up tend to ___ how much they liked each other when they first met

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Overestimate; underestimate

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Skinned is shaping as Bandura is to

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Modeling

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A psychologist would most likely to use ____ to determine whether nonverbal organisms can perceive different colors

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Shaping

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Psychologists define learning as the process of

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Acquiring new information or relatively enduring behaviors

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The neurotransmitter glutamate ____LTP and the protein CREV ___LTP

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Facilitates; facilitates

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Long-term potentiation is believed to be

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A neural basis for learning and memory

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John B. Watson considered himself to be a

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Behaviorist

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A learned association between two stimuli is central to

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Classical conditioning

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A psychologist who emphasized cognitive processes would be likely to suggest that classical conditioning depends on

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An organism's expectation that a U.S. Will follow a CS

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Rabbits fail to learn a conditional eye blink response when the function of different pathways in their ____ is surgically disrupted

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Cerebellum

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An event that strengthens the behavior it follows is a

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Reinforcement

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The basal ganglia facilitate the processing of

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Procedural memories

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A child who is punished for swearing at home but reinforced for swearing on the school playground is most likely to demonstrate a patterned habit of swearing that is indicative of

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Discrimination

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Encoding a written word semantically rather than on the basis of the word's written appearance illustrates a distinction between

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Deep and shallow processing

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A fixed-ration schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a

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Specified number of responses have been made

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Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned is called

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Source amnesia

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Which Krause of memory retention assesses the ability to draw information out of storage and into conscious awareness

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Recall

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The process of getting information out of memory is called

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Retrieval

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After being asked to remember three consonants, participants in a study by Peterson and Peterson doubted aloud backward three times to prevent

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Rehearsal

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Varsity basketball players can recall the positions of the players after a 4-second glands at a basketball play . This ability is best explained in terms of

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Chunking

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Memories are primed by

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Retrieval cues

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Removing a rats hippocampus 48 hours after it learns the location of some tasty food does not prevent it from forming a long-term memory of whet the food is located. This best illustrates the importance of

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Memory consolidation

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The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ____ effect

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Serial position

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Chunking refers to

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The organization of information into meaningful units

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In classical conditioning a stimulus is il any event of situation that

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Evokes a response

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A partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response that occurs after an unpredictable period of time is a ___ schedule

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Variable-interval

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The persistence of learning over time most clearly depends on

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Memory

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Elevated levels of stress hormones most clearly contribute to developing

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Flashbulb memories

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Echoic memory refers ton

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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious awareness is called

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Effort full processing

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Which of the following techniques used by professional therapists is likely tomorro tentacles memories in patients

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Hypnosis, guided imagery, dream analysis

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