Test 2 (Chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8)

Question 1

learning

Answer 1

relatively permant change in behavior resulting from experience

Question 2

Classical Conditionng:

Answer 2

elicited, involuntary, and proceeding by a stimulus (Generally autonomic, reflexive, involuntary and emotional in character.)

Question 3

Insturmental conditioning:

Answer 3

reinforcement- operating on the environment to get goal. A stimulus event that increases the likelihood of a behavior which it follows (Generally skeletal, voluntary, nonreflexive and goal oriented

Question 4

learned helplessness

Answer 4

results when animals are exposed to unavoidable, uncontrollable, aversive stimulation and can’t escape. Similar to depression.

Question 5

Extinction

Answer 5

decrease in strength or frequency or stopping of a learned response because of failure to continue operant or classical reward

Question 6

imitation learning bandura

Answer 6

watching someone else do it

Question 7

secondary reinforcement

Answer 7

money buys food

Question 8

Higher order conditioning

Answer 8

classical conditioning where bell is replaced with something else

Question 9

Biofeedback

Answer 9

The instrumental conditioning of traditionally classical responses

Question 10

sensory

Answer 10

: briefly stores info from Ionic = visual , echoic = auditory

Question 11

short term working memory

Answer 11

f rehersed in short term memory, it stays otherwise it decays rapidly

Question 12

long term

Answer 12

elaborative rehersal meaning(permitant everything we know)

Question 13

mnenonic

Answer 13

device for improving memory

Question 14

phoneme

Answer 14

basic sounds

Question 15

nature vs nuture

Answer 15

identical twins are smart

Question 16

syntax

Answer 16

how we combine words

Question 17

semantics

Answer 17

how we assign menaing

Question 18

infant phonetic development

Answer 18

crying, cooing, babbling, echolalic babbling, Telegraphic speech.

Question 19

IQ equation

Answer 19

Ma (mental age)/c (chronological age) x 100 = IQ

Question 20

Intelligent people

Answer 20

tend to be above average in adjustment and mental health

Question 21

Mental Retardation or Intellectual impairment:

Answer 21

has four levels: mild, moderate, severe and profound Unknown cause

Question 22

intrinsic

Answer 22

motivation refers to behaviors which are performed for personal satisfaction (intrinstic motivation

Question 23

extrinsic

Answer 23

external rewards

Question 24

imprinting

Answer 24

A type of learning which takes place during a specific time period (like ducklings learning to follow their mother)

Question 25

harlows research

Answer 25

rhesus monkeys highlights the importance of experience toward the development of normal mating behaviors