Final Exam Flashcards
The quotation, “change is the only constant, is typically attributed to ?
Lucretius
Darwin was notably influenced by the book, An essay on the Principle of Population, by?
Malthus
Modal action patterns are induced by events called
Releasers
The figure with the graph illustrates
Habituation
The person who suggested that to learn how nature works, we must “ sit down before fact as a little child”, and “be prepared to give up every preconceived notion” was?
T.H Huxley
Harry teaches an advanced painting class. His goal is to teach students to paint more creatively. Harry will probably measure learning as a change in response
Topography
Marjorie drives a school bus sometimes the kids get rather noisy she decides to play music the kids like through speakers on the bus but whenever the kids get to noisy she turns the music off when they get quiet she turns the music back on in this way she hopes to get the kids to make less noise Marjorie’s probably going to measure learning as a change in response
Intensity
A teacher who looks for an increase in the number of correct responses per minute is using as a ________ as a measure of learning
Fluency
Any variable that is allowed to vary freely is a
Dependent
In within -subject experiments such subjects performance is compared with his or her performance during a
Baseline period
Experimental research on behavior is often said to be artificial to Compensate for this problem research you should conduct
Field experiments & another look out on test
Pavlov’s main interest initially was
Physiology
In studying psychic secretions Pavlov focus his attention on the
Events in a dogs environment
The experiment discussed in our text were a dog learned to salivate at the sight of a black square after the square had been paired with a CS for salivating is an example of what conditioning
Higher-order
One way to determine if conditioning has occurred is to present the CS alone and then see what happens. each such presentation is typically called a what trial?
Test
