Chapter 4 - Learning Flashcards
What proposal that amount learned is a simple function of the amount of time spent on the learning task?
Total Time Hypothesis
What pronounceable but meaningless consonant-vowel-consonant items designed to study learning without the complicating factor of meaning?
Nonsense syllables
What term referred to breaking practice up into a number of shorter sessions; in contrast to massed practice, which comprises fewer, long, learning sessions?
Distributed Practice
What term referred to a learning schedule whereby items are initially tested after a short delay, with pretest delay gradually increasing across subsequent trials?
Expanding Retrieval
Term for failure to detect even quite dramatic changes in a scene, given a brief delay?
Change Blindness
What is classical conditioning phenomenon whereby multiple prior presentations of a neutral stimulus will interfere with its involvement in subsequent conditioning?
Latent Inhibition
What is a tendency for a neutral stimulus to acquire positive value with repeated exposure?
Mere Exposure Effect
What is a task whereby retention of a word is tested by presenting the first few letters?
Stem COmpletion
What is a technique whereby memory for a word is tested by deleting alternate letters and asking participants to produce the word?
Fragment Completion
What strategy for foreign language teaching whereby the learner is placed in an environment where only the foreign language is used?
Immersion Method
What concept proposed by Hebb to account for the physiological basis of long-term learning, which is assumed to involve the establishment of links between the cells forming the assembly?
Cell assembly
What process whereby synaptic transmission becomes more effective following a cell’s recent activation?
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
What is the time-dependent process by which a new trace is gradually woven into the fabric of memory and by which its components and their interconnections are cemented together?
COnsolidation
What area of the brain close to the hippocampus that is involved in emotional processing?
Amygdala
Which brain stucture in the medial temporal lobe that is important for long-term memory formation?
Hippocampus
