Psychology Semester Exam

The psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation.

• Perception

• Sensory Adaptation

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensation

The tendency to perceive a complete or whole figure even when there are gaps in what your senses tell you.

• Similarity

• Continuity

• Proximity

• Closure

The awareness of things that are both inside and outside ourselves.

• Consciousness

• Selective Attention

• Unconscious

• Non-conscious

Biological Clock

• REM Sleep

• Circadian Rhythm

• Narcolepsy

• Insomnia

Learning that remains hidden until it is needed.

• Observational learning

• Latent learning

• Token Economies

• Personal contracts

Memory of a specific event.

• Episodic memory

• Implicit memory

• Semantic memory

• Explicit memory

The first stage of memory storage

• Short term memory

• Primacy effect

• Sensory memory

• Echoic memory

The use of information to reach conclusions.

• Reasoning

• Premise

• Availability heuristic

• Anchoring heuristic

The knowledge and skills gained from experience.

• Intelligence

• Reasoning

• Over-regularization

• Achievement

The ability to to learn from experience, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with others.

• Intelligence

• Reasoning

• Over-regularization

• Achievement