Chapter 7.3

Question 1

Interleaved practice:

Answer 1

a practice schedule that mixes different kinds of problems or materials within a single study session

Question 2

Diffusion chain:

Answer 2

whereby individuals initially learn a behaviours by observing another individual perform that behaviour and then become models from which other individuals learn the behaviour.

Question 3

Observational learning:

Answer 3

an organism learns by watching the actions of others.

Question 4

Describe the bandura experiment:

Answer 4

obervsational learning and aggression, before 1965 the classic understanding from everyone that watching someone who was aggressive would actually decrease your own aggression. But they discovered the child would copy what the adult would do and the strongest effect was with children of the same sex to the model adult.

Question 5

Latent learning:

Answer 5

something is learned, but it is not manifested as a behavioural change until sometime in the future.

Question 6

Distributed practice:

Answer 6

which involves spreading out study activities so that more time intervenes between repetitions of the information to be learned

Question 7

Cognitive map:

Answer 7

a mental representation of the physical features of the environment

Question 8

what are the 4 necessary steps to observational learning:

Answer 8

1. Attention to the model 2. Retention 3. Reproduction 4. Motivation

Question 9

Implicity learning:

Answer 9

or learning that takes place largely independent of awareness of both the process and the products of information acquisition.