Vocab

5. relatively permanent behavior change due to experience
6. learned ability to distinguish between a conditional stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli
8. ability to retrieve information not in conscience awareness
10. organisms associate their own actions with consequences
12. strengthens a response by presenting a typically pleasurable stimulus after a response
13. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
16. activation
17. rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
18. fertilized egg
19. Learning that has persisted over time and information that has been stored and can be retrieved
20. system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

1. a persons characteristic emotional re-activity and intensity
2. photographic memory
3. refers to all mental activities associated with thinking knowing, remembering and communication
4. type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
7. period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
9. doing many things at once
11. sense of self
14. view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes
15. developing human organism about two weeks after fertilization