A condensed rapid review pass over the highest yield MCAT psychology and sociology terms for final week review.
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- What is the absolute threshold in sensory perception?
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The minimum stimulus intensity needed to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time.- According to Weber's law, the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is a constant ____ of the original stimulus intensity.
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proportion- What is sensory adaptation?
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Decreased sensitivity to a constant, unchanging stimulus over time.- In classical conditioning, what is an unconditioned stimulus?
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A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.- What is extinction in classical conditioning?
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The gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.- What is positive reinforcement?
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Adding a desirable stimulus after a behavior to increase the frequency of that behavior.- What is negative reinforcement?
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Removing an aversive stimulus after a behavior to increase the frequency of that behavior.- What reinforcement schedule produces the highest, most steady response rate and is most resistant to extinction?
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Variable ratio schedule.- What did Bandura's Bobo doll experiment demonstrate?
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That children can learn new behaviors, including aggression, simply by observing and imitating a model.- What is the primacy effect in memory?
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Better recall of items presented at the beginning of a list.- What is the recency effect in memory?
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Better recall of items presented at the end of a list.- What is proactive interference?
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When previously learned information interferes with the ability to recall newly learned information.- What is retroactive interference?
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When newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information.- What is the primary role of the hippocampus in memory?
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Consolidating new explicit (declarative) memories into long-term storage.- What is the primary role of the amygdala?
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Processing emotional responses, especially fear, and forming emotional memories.
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