Download intro to psych | PSYC - Psychology and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Bottom Up Processing DEFINITION 1 Starting with sensory receptors up to brain perception TERM 2 Top Down processing DEFINITION 2 Starting with brainperception and making way down to sensory receptors TERM 3 Episodic Memory DEFINITION 3 Memory for events in a particular time and place TERM 4 Semantic Memory DEFINITION 4 More or lesspermanent store of knowledge thatpeople have TERM 5 Collective Memory DEFINITION 5 Memory of a group of people ,typically passed from one generation to another TERM 6 Autobiographical Memory DEFINITION 6 Memory for the events of one's life TERM 7 Short Term Memory DEFINITION 7 Temporary recall of the info which is being processed at any time TERM 8 Explicit Memory DEFINITION 8 Conscious,intnetional reflection of previous experience and info TERM 9 Implicit Memory DEFINITION 9 One of two main types of long termhuman memory. acquired unconsciously, and can affect thoughts and behaviours. TERM 10 Procedural Memory DEFINITION 10 Responsible for knowing how to do things, known as motor skills, stores info on how to perform ex- walking TERM 21 Perception DEFINITION 21 Process of organizing and interpreting the incoming sensory information TERM 22 Chemoreceptors DEFINITION 22 A sensory cell or organ responsive to chemical stimuli TERM 23 Absolute Threshold DEFINITION 23 Minimal amount of stimulation needed for one to detect that stimulation 50 percent of the time TERM 24 Weber's Law DEFINITION 24 states that just noticeable difference is proportional to the magnitude of the initial stimulus TERM 25 Signal Detection DEFINITION 25 Method for studying the ability to correctly identify sensory stimuli TERM 26 Sensory Adaptation DEFINITION 26 Decrease in sensitivity of a receptor to a stimulus after constant stimulation
