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Associative learning

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Learning that certain event occur together

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Learning?

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The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors

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Stimulus

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any event or situation that evokes a response

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Cognitive learning

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The acquisition of mental info wether by observing events, watching others, or through language

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Classical conditioning

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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

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Behaviorism

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The view that psyc should be an objective science (agreed upon)that studies behavior without reference to the mental processes(not agreed upon)

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Neutral stimulus (ns)

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In CC a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

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Unconditioned response (ur)

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In classical conditioning, an unlearned naturally occurring response (like salvation) to a natural (us) stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus (us)

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In classical conditioning a stimulus that naturally triggers a response (ur)

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Conditioned response (cr)

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In cc, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

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Condition stimulus

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In classical conditioning an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (us) comes to trigger a CS

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Acquisition

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In cc: when the neutral stimulus first starts to trigger a conditioned response
In oc: the strengthening of a reinforced response

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Higher-order conditioning

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When you introduce a second stimulus to trigger a CR after you already have a CS for it

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Extinction

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The diminishing of a conditioned response. In operant when a response is no longer reinforced

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Spontaneous recovery

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The reappearance after a pause of a. Extinguished conditioned response

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Generalization

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The tendency once a response has been conditioned for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

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Discrimination

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In classical conditioning the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

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Operant conditioning

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A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

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Law of effect

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Thorndikes principle that behaviors followed by a favorable consequence becomes more likely and vice versa

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Operant chamber

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In operant conditioning research a chamber (also know as Skinner box)
Containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer

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Reinforcement

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In operant conditioning any event that strengthens the behavior it follows

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Shaping

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Where reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

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Positive reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers

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Negative reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli

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Primary reinforcer
Reinforcing stimulus that can satisfy a biological need
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Conditioned reinforcer
A stimulus that gains it's reinforcing power by association. With the primary reinforcer
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Reinforcement schedule
A pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced
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Continuous reinforcement
Reinforcing the desired response everytime it occurs
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Partial (intermittent) reinforcement
Reinforce a reponse only part of the time
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Punishment
An event that tends to decrease the behavior it follows
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Repondnant behavior
Occurs as an automatic response to a stimulus
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Operant behavior
Behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences
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Cognitive map
A mental representation of the layout of ones environment
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Latent learning
learning that occurs but isn't apparent until there is incentive to demonstrate it
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Intrinsic motivation
A desire to preform behavior effectively for it's own sake
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Extrinsic motivation
A desire to preform the behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
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Observational learning
Learning by observing others
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Modeling
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
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Mirror neurons
Frontal love neurons that fire when performing certain actions or observing another doing so
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Pro social behavior
Positive constructive helpful behavior the opposite of antisocial behavior
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Ionization energy
The energy that it takes to lose an electron
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3 steps in memory information processing
Encoding. Storage . Processing
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Visual sensory memory is referred to as
Iconic memory
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Echo memories fade after approximately
3 to 4 seconds
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What's not a measure of retention?
Retrieval
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Our short term memory span holds approx this many items
7
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Memory techniques sucks as acronyms and the peg-word system are called
Mnemonic devices
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Grouping things In larger familiar units is called
Chunking
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When learning occurs more what is released In to the synapses?
Serotonin
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Memory construction reveals that
Memories reflect a persons biases and assumptions
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How do people remember things best?
By being tested in the same environment they learned them in
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Spacing effect?
Disturbed study yields better retention than cramming
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Where are the neurons permanently changed after learning something?
Synapses
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The basal ganglia plays a critical role in the formation of
Procedural memory
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Memory for skills is called
Implicit memory
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When words are presented grouped by category or in random order recall was
Better for the categorized words
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The 3 stage processing of memory was proposed by
Atkinson and shiffrin
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Hypnotically "refreshed" memories may prove Inaccurate because of
Memory construction
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Which area of the brain is most important in processing of implicit memories
Cerebellum
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Forgetting curve?
A rapid decline in retention initially becomes stable there after
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Jenkins and dallenbach saw that memory was better in people who were
Asleep during retention interval
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What is very insensitive in triggering retrieval
Recall
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Amnesia victims normally have damage to
Hippocampus
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In recalling a list what words will you have most difficulty with?
The middle of the list words
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In a list what words will you best recall?
Those in the beginning
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What type of word processing results in the best retention?
Deep
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Will rats lose their memory of something if they have part of thier brain removed
No
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Anterograde amnesia is the inability to
Form new memories
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Long term potential ion refers to
The increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons
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Repression is an example of?
Motivated forgetting
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Studies by loftus and Palmer in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident in dictate that
People's recall maybe easily affected by misleading information
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Is speed reading a recommended studying technique?
No
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What is it called when you get information Out of memory storage?
Retrieval
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Amnesia patients typically experience disruption of
Explicit memories
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Information is maintained i short term memory only briefly unless it is
Rehearsed
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Textbook chapters are often organized into what? To promote information processing
Hierarchies
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Traumatic Memories recovered by drugs / hypnosis are considered
Vividly remembered, unreliable and easily influenced, memories before age 3 are especially unreliable
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Semantic encoding is a type of
Deep processing
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Misinformation effect provides evidence that memory
May be reconstructed to during recall according to how questions are framed

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