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Non-associative learning

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When organism is repeatedly exposed to stimulus

Habitual or sensitization

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Habit

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Action performed repeatedly until it becomes automatic

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Dishabituation

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Previously habituated stimulus is removed

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Sensitization

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Increase in responsiveness due to repeated stimulus or particularly noxious stimulus

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Desensitization

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Stimulus that previously evoked strong response does not provoke such strong response anymore

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Associative learning

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One event, object, or action is directly connected with another
Classical or operative

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Classical conditioning

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Two stimuli are paired in such a way that a response to one of the stimuli changes
Pavlov’s dogs

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Neutral stimulus

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Does not initially elicit intrinsic response

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Stimulus that elicits unconditioned response

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Conditioned stimulus

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Originally neutral, but paired with unconditioned to produce conditioned response

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Conditioned response

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Learned response to the conditioned stimulus

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Acquisition

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Process of learning conditioned response

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Extinction

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Conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are no longer paired - conditional response eventually stops occuring

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Spontaneous recovery

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Extinct conditioned response occurs again when the conditioned stimuli is presented after some period of time

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Generalization

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When stimuli other than the original conditioned stimulus elicit the conditioned response

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Discrimination

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Opposite of generalization

When conditioned stimulus is differentiated from other stimulus

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Taste-aversion

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Long-lasting association in people and animals

Caused by nausea and vomiting

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Operant conditioning

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Reinforcement and punishment

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Reinforcement

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Anything that will increase the likelihood that preceding behaviour will be repeated

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Positive reinforcement

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Some sort of desirable stimulus occurs immediately following a behaviour

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Negative reinforcement

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Some sort of undesirable stimulus occurs immediately following a behaviour

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Primary reinforcers

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Reinforcers that are somehow innately satisfying or desirable
ie. food, avoiding pain

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Secondary reinforcers

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Things that are learned to be reinforcers

Neutral stimuli that are paired with primary reinforcers to make them conditioned

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Reinforcement schedule

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Operant conditioning requires a schedule
Continuous: actions are reinforced
Intermittent: actions are reinforced or not

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Continuous reinforcement

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Actions are reinforced quickly but quickly extinct

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Intermittent reinforcement

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Actions are either reinforced or not
But kept longer than continuous reinforcement
Fixed-interval, fixed-ratio, variable-interval, variable-ratio

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Fixed-ratio schedule

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Provides reinforcement after set number of instances of behaviour

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Variable-ratio schedule

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Provides reinforcement after unpredictable number of occurrences

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Fixed-interval schedule

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Provides reinforcement after set period of time that is constant

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Variable-interval schedule

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Provides reinforcement after an inconsistent amount of time

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Positive punishment

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Behaviour is followed by consequence

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Negative punishment

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Behaviour is followed by removal of desired stimulus

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Escape

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Individual learns to get away from averse stimulus by engaging in a particular behaviour

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Avoidance

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Person performs behaviour to ensure an averse stimulus is not presented

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Behaviourism

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All psychological phenomena are explained by describing the observable antecedents of behaviours and its consequences

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Cognitive psychology

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Focus on the brain, cognitions, and their effects on how we navigate the world

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Insight learning

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When previously learned behaviours are combined in unique ways

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Latent learning

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Something is learned but not expressed as an observable behaviour until it is required

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Short-term memory

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Lasts seconds to hours

Can be converted into long term memory through consolidation

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Consolidation

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Process of turning short-term memories into long term memories

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Long-term potentiation

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Following brief periods of stimulation, an increase in synaptic strength between two neurons leading to stronger electrochemical responses to a given stimuli
Increased chance of neuron firing after connection being stimulated

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Innate behaviours

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Things we know how to do instinctively

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Observational learning

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AKA social learning and vicarious learning

Learning through watching and imitating others

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Modeling

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An action performed (modelled) by another person

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Albert Bandura

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Used Bobo doll and adults to model behaviour for children

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Mirror neurons

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Located in premotor cortex, supplementary motor area, primary somatosensory cortex, and inferior parietal cortex
Fire when performing tasks and when observing other perform tasks
Help learn through imitation

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Vicarious emotions

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Mirror neurons could be responsible

Ie. empathy

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Persuasion

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One method of attitude and behaviour change

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Elaborate likelihood model

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Defines when/how people will be influenced - content vs. superficial

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Three components of persuasiveness

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  1. Message characteristics
  2. Source characteristics
  3. Target characteristics
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Two cognitive routes of persuasion

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  1. Central - content, lasting change

2. Peripheral - superficial, temporary change

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Social cognitive theory

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How we interpret and respond to external events, and how past situations have affects on our behaviour
Social factors, observational learning, and environmental factors have influences on person’s attitude change

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Reciprocal determinism

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Interaction between person’s behaviours, personal factors, and environment

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Three ways person and environment interact

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  1. Person chooses environment that shapes them
  2. Personality shapes how people interpret and respond to their environment
  3. Person’s personality influences the situation to which they then react
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Behavioural genetics

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Determine the role of inheritance on behavioural traits

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IQ

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Intelligence Quotient

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Fluid intelligene (Gf)

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Ability to think on your feet

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Crystallized intelligence (Gc)

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Ability to recall and apply already-learned information

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Theory of multiple intelligences

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8 different intelligence modalities

Logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal, interpersonal

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Emotional intelligence

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Being well attuned to own emotions

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Intellectual disability

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Those with IQ lower than 2 standdev from mean - less than 70
Also have difficulty adapting to demands of everyday life
Can sometimes be due to physical cause

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Reflexes

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Automatic behaviours
Used for survival, primitive
Originate in central nervous system

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Moro reflex

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Startle reflex due to loud sound or sudden movement

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Rooting reflex

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Response to touching or stroking baby cheek - baby begins to look for nipple

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Sucking reflex

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Anything touching roof of baby’s mouth - sucking

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Babinski reflex

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Response to sole of foot being stroked, big toe move upwards or towards top of foot and other toes fan upwards

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Tonic neck reflex

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In response to head being turned to the side, baby will stretch out its arm on that side and bend other at the elbow

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Palmar grasp reflex

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Stroking baby’s palm, baby will grasp

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Walking/stepping reflex

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When baby’s feet touch flat surface, they will try to walk

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Reflexive movements

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Primitive, involuntary movements to prime the neuromuscular system and form basis for more sophisticated movement to come

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Rudimentary movements

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First voluntary movements as child, occur in predictable stages between 0-2
Rolling, sitting, crawling, standing and walking
Foundation on which fundamental movements are built

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Fundamental movements

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2-7yo
Child is learning to manipulate body through running, jumping, throwing and catching
Highly influenced by environment

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Specialized movement

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Children learn to combine fundamental movements and apply them to specific tasks
Can be divided into transitional substage and application substage

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Transitional substage

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Stage when combinations of movements occur

ie. gasping, throwing, jumping - combined to shoot ball

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Application substage

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Conscious decisions to apply skills to specific types of activities
(ie. choosing baseball or basketball)

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Maturation

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Sequence of biological growth processes in human development

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Lifelong application stage

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Beginning in adolescence and progressing through adulthood

Movements are continuously refined and applied to normal daily activities

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Infantile amnesia

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Do not remember anything before age of 3.5 usually

Young children are still capable of learning and memory

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Stranger anxiety

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Crying and clinging to caregiver

Peaks around 13mo then gradually declines

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Contact comfort

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Baby monkey experiment

Contradicts that stranger anxiety is due to nourishment - actually about comfort

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Securely attached infants

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Will play when mother is in room, will become distressed when she leaves, but will be easily comforted
Responsive mothers

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Insecurely attached infants

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Less likely to explore in presence of mother (can even cling)
May cry or seem indifferent at mom’s departure and return
Unresponsive mothers

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Parenting style categories (3)

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  1. Authoritarian
  2. Permissive
  3. Authoritative
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Authoritarian parents

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Attempting to control children with strict rules that they are expected to follow unconditionally
Punishment instead of discipline and will not explain reasoning behind their rules
Children have difficulty - aggressive, shy, awkward

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Permissive parents

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Few rules and demands

Children tend to lack self-discipline, may be self involved and demanding, poor social skills

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Authoritative parents

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Listen to children, encourage independence, place limits on behaviour, consistently follow through with consequences
Tends to produce happier children, who have good emotional control and regulation

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Adolescence

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Transitional stage between childhood and adulthood
Starts with puberty and ends with achievement of independent adult status
Usually encompasses teenage years

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Three major brain changes during adolescence

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  1. Cell proliferation
  2. Synaptic pruning
  3. Myelination
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Encoding

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Process of transferring sensory information into our memory system

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Serial position effect

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Occurs when one is trying to learn a series, in immediate recall condition, individual is more likely to recall first and last items on the list

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Primary effect

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More likely to recall first thing on the list - more time to be transferred into long-term memory

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Recency effect

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More likely to recall last thing on the list - still in phonological loop

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Mnemonic

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Technique for improving retention and retrieval of information from memory

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Rehearsal

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Use of phonological loop through repeating

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Chunking

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Information to be remembered is organized in discrete groups of data

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Hierarchies

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For organization - into groups

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Depth of processing

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Information thought on a deeper level is more likely to be remembered

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Dual coding hypothesis

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Easier to remember words with associated images than either words or images alone

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Methods of loci

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Imagining your way through a familiar place and in each place, leaving a visual representation of topic to be remembered

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Self-reference effect

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It is easier to remember thing that are personally relevant

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Sensory memory

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Initial recording of sensory information in the memory system
Very brief snapshot that quickly decays
Iconic and echoic memory

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Iconic memory

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Brief photographic memory for visual information

Decays very quickly

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Echoic memory

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Memory for sound, which lasts 3-4 seconds

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Short-term memory

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Usually about 7 items

only retained for about 20 seconds unless actively processed

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Long-term memory

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Information that is retained and sometimes indefinitely - infinite capacity

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Implicit (procedural) memory

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Conditioned associations and knowledge of how to do something

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Explicit (declarative memory)

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Able to declare or voice what is known

108
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Semantic memory

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Memory for factual information

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Episodic memory

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Autobiographical memory for information of personal importance

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Nodes

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Sites on a map - how long-term memories are organized into a network

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Association

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Connection of nodes in long-term memory

Strength of association is reliant on how frequently and deeply this connection is made

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Response threshold

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Node does not become activated until it receives input signals from its neighbours
Effect of input signals is cumulative - summation of multiple nodes

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Spreading activation

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Nodes fire and send stimulus to its neighbours, activation of a few nodes leads to pattern of activation within the network

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Retrieval

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Process of finding information stored in memory

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Recall

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The ability to retrieve information

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Free recall

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Retrieving the item out of tin air

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Cued recall

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Retrieving the information when provided with a cue

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Recognition

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Identifying specific information from a set of information that is presented

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Relearning

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Proces of learning material that was originally learned

120
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Interference

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Can result in failure to retrieve information that is in storage
Passage of time can cause more opportunity for interference

121
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Proactive interference

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Information that is previously learned interferes with ability to recall information learned later

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Retroactive interference

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When newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously

123
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Positive transfer

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Old information facilitates the learning of new information

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Schema

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Mental blueprint containing common aspects of some part of the world
Can lead to misremembering, especially with leading questions

125
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Misinformation effect

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When people are exposed to subtle misinformation, they are susceptible tot he misinformation effect, tendency to misremember

126
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False memories

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Occurs when repeatedly imagining nonexistent actions and events
Inaccurate recollections of an event and may be the result of implanting of ideas

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Source monitoring

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When individuals forget source of information

128
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Neural plasticity

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Refers to malleability of the brain’s pathways

129
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Neurogenesis

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Birth of new neurons

Small extent in hippocampus and cerebellum

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