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intro to psych | PSYC - Psychology, Quizzes of Psychology

Class: PSYC - Psychology; Subject: Psychology; University: Our Lady of the Lake College; Term: Forever 1989;

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TERM 1
Bottom Up Processing
DEFINITION 1
Starting with sensory receptors up to brain perception
TERM 2
Top Down processing
DEFINITION 2
Starting with brainperception and making way down
to sensory receptors
TERM 3
Episodic Memory
DEFINITION 3
Memory for events in a particular time and place
TERM 4
Semantic Memory
DEFINITION 4
More or lesspermanent store of knowledge thatpeople
have
TERM 5
Collective Memory
DEFINITION 5
Memory of a group of people ,typically passed from
one generation to another
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Bottom Up Processing

Starting with sensory receptors up to brain perception TERM 2

Top Down processing

DEFINITION 2 Starting with brainperception and making way down to sensory receptors TERM 3

Episodic Memory

DEFINITION 3 Memory for events in a particular time and place TERM 4

Semantic Memory

DEFINITION 4 More or lesspermanent store of knowledge thatpeople have TERM 5

Collective Memory

DEFINITION 5 Memory of a group of people ,typically passed from one generation to another

Autobiographical Memory

Memory for the events of one's life TERM 7

Short Term Memory

DEFINITION 7 Temporary recall of the info which is being processed at any time TERM 8

Explicit Memory

DEFINITION 8 Conscious,intnetional reflection of previous experience and info TERM 9

Implicit Memory

DEFINITION 9 One of two main types of long termhuman memory. acquired unconsciously, and can affect thoughts and behaviours. TERM 10

Procedural Memory

DEFINITION 10 Responsible for knowing how to do things, known as motor skills, stores info on how to perform ex- walking

False Memory

Memory for an event that never actually occurred, implanted by experimental manipulation or other means TERM 17

Photoreceptors

DEFINITION 17 Cells in the retina that began the process of seeing, they absorb and convert light into electrical signals TERM 18

Phantom Limb Pain

DEFINITION 18 Pain in a limb that no longer exists TERM 19

Sensation

DEFINITION 19 Process by which the sense organs detect and receive environmental stimuli TERM 20

Transduction

DEFINITION 20 Process of transforming stimulus energies into Neuro chemical signals

Perception

Process of organizing and interpreting the incoming sensory information TERM 22

Chemoreceptors

DEFINITION 22 A sensory cell or organ responsive to chemical stimuli TERM 23

Absolute Threshold

DEFINITION 23 Minimal amount of stimulation needed for one to detect that stimulation 50 percent of the time TERM 24

Weber's Law

DEFINITION 24 states that just noticeable difference is proportional to the magnitude of the initial stimulus TERM 25

Signal Detection

DEFINITION 25 Method for studying the ability to correctly identify sensory stimuli