Terry 11

Question 1

landmarks

Answer 1

using a feature of your environment as an anchor; spacial navigation skills build on this

Question 2

route knowledge

Answer 2

knowing the path through an environment(younger people use this)

Question 3

survey knowledge/cognitive map

Answer 3

know a map and you decide which route to take (test by blocking a pathway) (older people use this)

Question 4

radial arm maze

Answer 4

arms radiate out from the central location; used to test cognitive mapping

Question 5

morris water maze

Answer 5

put a rat in a large tank of water, can find a platform to stand on

Question 6

preferred perspective

Answer 6

the way your body is facing determines where you think you are

Question 7

motor skills learning

Answer 7

associating certain stimuli/orders of movement. ex: learning how to type

Question 8

pursuit rotor task

Answer 8

put a disc on something that rotates…

Question 9

mirror task

Answer 9

drawing or reading in a mirror

Question 10

power law

Answer 10

the more effort you put into it, the less return you get as time goes on

Question 11

alternating spaced schedule

Answer 11

spaced practice for several skills, study several each day for a short time each and then do this for several days

Question 12

critical study: had subjects use their finger to follow an arc on the screen

Answer 12

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Question 13

metacognition

Answer 13

knowledge about how well you understand what works in developing motor skills

Question 14

artificial grammar

Answer 14

make up a language and see how well participants learn it

Question 15

errorless training

Answer 15

never allow the learner to make a mistake

Question 16

perseveration

Answer 16

keep doing the same thing over and over again

Question 17

declarative knowledge

Answer 17

memory for verbalizable knowledge or propositions

Question 18

semantic memory

Answer 18

word meanings/general facts (declarative)

Question 19

episodic memory

Answer 19

autobiographical memory of events (declarative)

Question 20

procedural knowledge

Answer 20

ability to perform behaviors

Question 21

extramaze cues

Answer 21

cues outside the maze to help rats know which arms they’ve already been in

Question 22

practice-dependent learning

Answer 22

skill improvement that comes with practice

Question 23

practice-independent learning

Answer 23

improvement in skill that comes with sleep after training

Question 24

knowledge of results

Answer 24

outcome information- feedback

Question 25

self-guidance hypothesis

Answer 25

feedback is necessary but if it’s too consistent the person won’t learn how to correct themselves

Question 26

priming effect

Answer 26

fragment completion is improved by previous exposure to that word

Question 27

declarative stage

Answer 27

stage of skill learning when information is learned

Question 28

knowledge compilation

Answer 28

groups of operations that are used together are put into chunks to recall to improve efficiency

Question 29

procedural stage

Answer 29

skills are refined through generalization (presenting to new situations) and discrimination (restricting to only appropriate situations)

Question 30

skilled memory theory

Answer 30

encode knowledge in an organized, meaningful way; well-developed retrieval routines; practice encoding and retrieval speed

Question 31

good map learners

Answer 31

break up map into sections and focus on one part at a time; less verbal rehearsal, more visual imagery; more self-testing