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Chapters 7 and 8 Flashcards

1
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Learning

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Relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

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2
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Behaviorism

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What are the underlying principles that guide learning

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3
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Associative learning

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Learn to associate two events when they occur one right after the other

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4
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Classical Conditioning

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Learning to behave a certain way with a certain stimulus

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5
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Pavlov’s original experiments

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Working on how dogs salivate

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6
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Conditioned

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learned

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7
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Unconditioned

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Automatic/innate

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8
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Stimulus

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Something in the environment

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Response

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Behavior the organism does when the stimulus is present

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10
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Extinction

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Present CS w/o US repeatedly, CS stops

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11
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Spontaneous Recovery

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After extinction, present CS after rest period, triggers CR

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12
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Generalization

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Weaker response to a similar stimulus

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13
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Discrimination

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Can train to only respond to stimulus trained on, gets rid of generalization

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14
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Biology in classical conditioning

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We are prepared to make certain associations

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15
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Cognition in classical conditioning

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Thinking can lessen association

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16
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Operant Conditioning

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Reinforcing behavior

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17
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Skinner Box

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Box with lever, food dispenser, and electrical floor

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18
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Shaping

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Reinforcements that gradually guide actions toward a desired behavior

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19
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Reinforcement

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Any event that increases the frequency of behavior

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20
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Positive

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Adding something to the situation

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21
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Negative

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Taking something away

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22
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Primary

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Innately important to learner

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23
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Secondary

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Have to learn, associated with primary reinforcer (i.e. money)

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24
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Immediate

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Happens immediately to the learner

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25
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Delayed

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Some period of time before reinforcement

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26
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Continuous

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Response is reinforced every time

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27
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Partial

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Give reinforcement only sometimes

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28
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Is partial or continuous learned and unlearned quickly?

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Continuous

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29
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Fixed interval

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Same amount of time

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30
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Variable interval

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Unpredictable amount of time

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31
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Fixed ratio

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Same number of times

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32
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Variable ratio

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Unpredictable number of times

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33
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Punishment

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Decreases frequency of behavior (positive or negative)

34
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Biology in operant conditioning

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Easiest to learn to associate behaviors that help you to survive

35
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Cognition in operant conditioning

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Still learn and think without reinforcement

36
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Bandura’s work

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Bobo doll (TV)- kids who saw violence towards the doll played with it violently

37
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Observational learning

38
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Applications of observational learning

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Gets rid of phobias

39
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Memory

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Ability to store and retrieve information that has been learned

40
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Flashbulb memory

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Perfectly clear memory triggered by emotion

41
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Clive

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Hippocampus destroyed, cannot remember/process new things

42
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S

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Amazing memory, memorize by associating with place

43
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Normal memory

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remember meaning not detail

44
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Information processing model

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Encoding>StoringRetrieving

45
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Encoding

A

Getting info into the memory system

46
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Things Automatically processed

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Space/location; Time; Frequency

47
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Effortful Processing

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Have to put in a conscious effort

48
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Spacing effect

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Space out studying and come back to it several times to remember better

49
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Serial position effect

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Remember things a the beginning and end better

50
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Time spent

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More=better

51
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Chunking

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(7-+2) Remember significant chunks better (Phone #, SSN)

52
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Mnemonics

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Study aides

53
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Hierarchies

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General topics are broken into more specific ones (textbook)

54
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Meaningful

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Personally relevant

55
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Forgetting due to encoding

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Encoding failure

56
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Storage

57
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Sensory memory

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Pre-sensation, extremely brief

58
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Iconic memory

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Momentary visual sensory memory

59
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How long is an iconic memory

60
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Echoic memory

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Momentary auditory sensory memory

61
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How long is an echoic memory

62
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Short term memory

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Current consciousness

63
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Capacity of short term memory

64
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Duration of short term memory

65
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Long term memory capacity and duration

66
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Neurotransmitters and hormones

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More hormones= more neurotransmitters firing

67
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Explicit/ declarative memory

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Consciously know that we know (facts, dates, names, experiences)

68
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Where is explicit memory controlled?

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Hippocampus and frontal lobe

69
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Implicit/ procedural memory

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Perform action skillfully w/o being aware

70
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Where is implicit memory controlled?

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Cerebellum and basal ganglia

71
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Retrieval

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Getting info back

72
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Recall

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On the spot generation of info

73
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recognition

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ID correct info

74
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Relearning

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Knew it, forgot it, learn faster second time

75
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Priming

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When you ID an associated idea that leads you to related info

76
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Context

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Remember info better if you are in the same situation

77
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Interference

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Info in memory system is being blocked by something related

78
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Proactive/ forward interference

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Old blocks new

79
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Retroactive/ backward interference

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New blocks old

80
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Motivated forgetting

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Fred’s idea, want to forget certain (painful) memories (this is a false concept)

81
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Memory construction

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We construct our memories but can distinguish when we’ve altered our memories

Psy 201: Myers' Exploring Psychology (14 decks)

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