PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alpha Waves, Skeletal Muscle, Spasm
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Consciousness: the subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment. Myoclonic: spasm or jerk (involuntary muscle skeletal muscle spasm) Biological rhythm: regularly occurring cycles of behavior caused by biological factors. Circadian rhythm: biological cycle that guides the daily walking and sleeping in many animals. Sleep apnea: wake up due to lack of breathing. Learning: study of how we acquire or change behaviors. Conditioning: the ability to connect stimuli (the changes that occur in our environment) with responses (behaviors or other actions) Pavlov discovered classical conditioning: learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a stimulus that produces behavior naturally. Operant conditioning: learning that occurs based on consequence of behavior. Rewards: reinforcement (anything increasing your likelihood of a behavior reoccurring) Law of effect: any behavior that is rewarded will be repeated more often- thorndike. Insight: sudden understanding of a solution to a problem.
