Consciousness

 

Electromyogram (EMG)
Electro-oculogram (EOG)
Electroencepahlogram (EEG)

EEG and Brain Waves

Stages of Sleep

Beta Waves
Alpha Waves
Sleep Spindles
Delta Waves
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
REM
REM without Atonia (Official: REM sleep behavior disorder)
Sleep Walking & Talking

Night Terrors

Sleep Apnea
Narcolepsy "My Own Private Idaho"
Sleep Paralysis
Insomnia
Theories of Sleep and REM Sleep

The REM Rebound

An Adaptive Response

Brain Development

Freud: Wish Fulfillment
The Activation-Synthesis Model

 “Dreams for Survival” Theory

Learning of New Material

The Flowerpot Technique

Hypnosis

Induction

Suggestion

Termination

The Debate

 

Learning

 

Habituation

Classical Conditioning

Neutral Stimulus

Unconditioned Stimulus

Unconditioned Response

Conditioned Stimulus

Conditioned Response

Phobias
Fetishes
Advertising
Conditioned Drug Tolerance
Extinction

Spontaneous Recovery

Generalization

Discrimination

Operant Conditioning 

B.F. Skinner
Skinner’s Assumptions

Respondents

Operants

Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment (Positive Punishment)
Negative Punishment (Response Costs)
Schedules of Positive Reinforcement

Continuous

Fixed Ratio
Variable Ratio 
Fixed Interval
Variable Interval

Shaping

Superstitious Behaviors  

 

Memory

 

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Three Memory Systems
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory/Working Memory
Long Term Memory

Echoic Memory

Iconic Memory

Capacity, Duration, Forgetting, and Transfer of the three systems.

The Magic Number

Chunking

Maintenance Rehearsal

Elaborative Rehearsal

The Hippocampus

Anterograde Amnesia
The Consolidation Hypothesis

The Consolidation Period

Levels of LTM

Declarative Memory/Semantic Memory

Episodic Memory

Procedural Memory

Retrieval Cues

The Effect of Context

State Dependent Memory

Retrieving Semantic Memories:  A Network Model

Priming

Explicit Memory

Implicit Memory

Schemas