| A | B |
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| absolute thresholds | minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimuli 50% of the time |
| transduction | process that our sensory systems converts stimulus energy into neural messages |
| colour constancy | ability to perceive familiar objects as having consistent colour, even if the context changes |
| PHI phenomenon | when lights beside each other blink on and off in succession, we perceive them as moving |
| visual agnosia | syndrome in which all parts of the visual field are seen, but the objects seen are without meaning |
| linear perspective | parallel lines appear to converge with distance |
| monocular cues | distance cues that each eye separately performs |
| manifest content | story line of your dreams |
| sleep apnea | disorder in which people stop breathing during sleep and decreased blood oxygen wakes the sleeper |
| spontaneous recovery | reappearance, after rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response |
| generalization | tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for a stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses |
| respondent behavior | behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus; skinner's term for behavior learned through classical conditioning |
| reinforcer | in operant conditioning, any even that strengthens the behavior it follows |
| intrinsic motivation | desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective |
| modeling | process of observing and imitation a specific behavior |
| James-Lange theory | body reaction creates emotion |
| Cannon-Bard theory | psychological arousal and emotional experience occur at the same time |
| Schachter's 2-factor theory | emotions have physical arousal and cognitive label |
| Amygdala | emotional control center in the brain |
| encoding | getting information into the long-term memory |
