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What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Cutting up an onion makes your eyes water is an example of this stimulus.
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What is the absolute threshold?
The minimal amount of stimulus is needed to sense something.
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What is inattentional blindness?
This type of blindness is the failure to see visible objects because our attention is occupied elsewhere.
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What is Job analysis?
___ involves accurately describing a task
or job i.e Matches people to an organization |
What is short-term memory?
This is a type of storage that holds nonsensory information for more than a few seconds but less than a minute.
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What is shaping?
Learning that results from the reinforcement of successive steps to a final desired behavior is called____
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What is the opponent processing theory?
This theory proposes that one member of the color pair suppresses the other color.
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What is a stimulant?
What type of drug increases alertness?
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What is an unstructured interview?
In this type of interview, questions differ for each
candidate and is considered to be more of a “free-flow” conversation |
What is implicit memory?
The influence of past experiences on later behavior, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of the recollection is called.
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What is positive reinforcement?
____ is a technique used to increase desired behavior.
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What is sensory adaptation?
Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation is known as___.
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What is insomnia?
A consistent difficulty in falling or staying asleep for at least three nights a week over a month’s time
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What is Human factors engineering?
The application of human factors info to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments
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What is anterograde amnesia?
___ is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store
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What is a secondary reinforcer?
Earning a gold star for good behavior is an example of this
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What is the temporal theory?
This theory asserts that frequency is coded by the activity level of a sensory neuron. This would mean that a given hair cell would fire action potentials related to the frequency of the sound wave.
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What is REM rebound?
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation is referred to as this.
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What is ergonomics?
An area of human factors work interested in the design and arrangement of our workplace and the things we interact with the most
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What is a mnemonic?
PEMDAS is an example of this memory technique
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What is latent learning?
Using ____ a passenger in a carpool learns the route to work each day through observation, and when it's their turn to drive, they can get there without a map.
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What is bottom-up processing?
Type of processing that information starts with the individual elements and gradually builds up to a final representation and interpretation
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What is the pineal gland?
This gland secretes melatonin which helps regulate circadian rhythms. (also known as the master gland)
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What is pressure and performance?
The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between____.
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What is priming?
An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus, such as a word or an object, as a result of recent exposure to the stimulus.
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