Imagine You Are Staring at a Photograph of a Man's

question 53

Essay

Imagine you are staring at a photograph of a man's face and trying to memorize it for later.Using the modal model,describe how the visual information will be processed and eventually stored in memory.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A once-neutral trigger that, upon association with an unconditioned stimulus, in time provokes a conditioned response.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.

Adaptive Value

The extent to which a trait or behavior increases the odds of survival and reproduction for an organism in its environment.