Psychology Vocabulary

The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time

• Adapting our current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information
• The process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects of the retina

A desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of skills or ideas; for rapidly attaining a high standard

A test designed to assess what people have learned

• In classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.
• In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response