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A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience.

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Learning

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A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after it is paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that responses.

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Classical Conditioning

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A stimulus that doesn’t necessarily cause any reaction.

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Neutral Stimulus

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It refers to the responses that lead to satisfying consequences are more likely to be repeated.

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Law of Effect

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It is learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on its favorable or unfavorable consequences.

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Operant Conditioning

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It is anything that leads to an increase in behavior.

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Reinforcement

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2 forms of Reinforcement

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  1. Positive Reinforcement
  2. Negative Reinforcement
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A stimulus that is added to increase a behavior.

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Positive Reinforcement

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An unpleasant stimulus that is removed to increase a behavior.

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Negative Reinforcement

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Anything that leads to decrease in behavior.

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Punishment

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2 forms of Punishment

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  1. Positive Punishment
  2. Negative Punishment
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An unpleasant stimulus that is added to decrease a behavior.

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Positive Punishment

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A stimulus that is removed to decrease a behavior.

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Negative Punishment

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It is where we connect new information with information we already know.

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Deep Processing

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It stays in short term memory.

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Repetition (Shallow Processing)

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It makes sure that information goes to Long Term Memory.

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Effective Studying (Deep Processing)

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4 Effective Studying Methods

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  1. Not Very Effective: Rereading and Highlighting
  2. Sometimes Effective: Summarizing, Keyword Mnemonic, and Mental Imagery
  3. Effective: Elaborative Interrogation and Self-Explanation
  4. Very Effective: Practice Testing, Distributed Practice, and Interleaved Practice
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Repeatedly reading material after an initial reading session.

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Rereading

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Making main points and concepts in materials in order to have them stand out from the rest of the material.

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Highlighting

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Getting the main points of concept/paragraph and excluding unimportant parts.

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Summarizing

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Getting keywords from materials and making mental interactive images using those words.

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Keyword Mnemonic

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Creating mental images for every paragraph of the material being read.

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Mental Imagery

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Asking yourself why a certain fact/concept can be true, and generating explanations using previous knowledge.

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Elaborative Interrogation

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Explaining your thought process when thinking about materials and adding onto the knowledge using previously learned information.

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Self-Explanation

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Items/Information that you create on your own, rather than passively receiving them, are more likely to be remembered.
Generation Effect
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A low-stakes practice of retrieval for important information done by a student outside of class time.
Practice Testing
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Distributing studying/learning over spaced periods of time, as opposed to cramming or back-to-back studying.
Distributed Practices
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Inserting the studying of materials/different kinds of problems from different topics/chapters in singular study sessions.
Interleaved Practice
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The fluency and the familiarity effect.
Illusions of Learning
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A Russian physiologist that never intended to do a psychological research, yet won the Nobel Prize for his work on digestion which is a testimony to his contribution to that field.
Ivan Pavlov
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It is the decrease to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus.
Habituation
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It is a natural, innate response that occurs automatically and needs no training and are always brought about by the presence of unconditioned stimuli.
Unconditioned Response (UCR)
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A stimulus that naturally brings about a particular response without having been learned.
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
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A once-neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus to bring about a response formerly caused only by the unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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A response that, after conditioning, follows a previously neutral stimulus.
Conditioned Response (CR)
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2 psychologists that showed that classical conditioning was at the root of such fears by conditioning an 11-month-old infant named Albert to be afraid of rats.
1. John B. Watson 2. Rosalie Rayne
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These are intense, irrational fears that may develop by classical conditioning cases.
Phobias
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A basic phenomenon of learning that occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.
Extinction
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The reemergence of an extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning.
Spontaneous Recovery
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A process in which, after a stimulus has been conditioned to produce a particular response, stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus produce the same response.
Stimulus Generalization
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The process that occurs if two stimuli are sufficiently distinct from one another that one evokes a conditioned response but the other does not; the ability to differentiate between stimuli.
Stimulus Discrimination
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A learning psychologist that found that some organisms, including humans, were biologically prepared to quickly learn to avoid foods that smelled or tasted like something that made them sick.
John Garcia
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It is when the taste pf a particular food is associated with unpleasant symptoms such as nausea or vomiting.
Taste Aversion
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He stated that the cat would have learned that pressing the paddle was associated with the desirable consequence of getting food.
Edward L. Thorndike
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Responses that lead to satisfying consequences are more likely to be repeated.
Law of Effect
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One of the 20th century's most influential psychologist where Thorndike's early research served as the foundation.
Burrhus Frederic (B.F.) Skinner
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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A chamber with a highly controlled environment that was used to study operant conditioning processes with laboratory animals.
Skinner Box
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Any stimulus that increases the probability that a preceding behavior will occur again.
Reinforcer
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It satisfies some biological need and works naturally, regardless of a person's previous experience.
Primary Reinforcer
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It is a stimulus that becomes reinforcing because of its association with a primary reinforcer.
Secondary Reinforcer
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It is where secondary reinforcers make up these heart and are sometimes used in the treatment of some psychological disorders for those who are in the instutions.
Token Systems
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It is limited to positive occurrences, and this is where it differs from a reinforcer, for it turns out that reinforcers can be positive or negative.
Reward
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Different patterns of frequency and timing of reinforcement following desired behavior.
Schedules of Reinforcement
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A schedule in which behaviors is reinforced every time the behavior occurs.
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule
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Reinforcing of a behavior some but not all of the time.
Partial (or Intermittent) Reinforcement Schedule
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A schedule in which reinforcement is given only after a specific number of responses are made.
Fixed-ratio Schedule
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A schedule by which reinforcement occurs after a varying number of responses rather than after a fixed number.
Variable-ratio Schedule
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A schedule in which reinforcement is provided for a response only after a fixed time period has elapsed.
Fixed-interval Schedule
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A schedule by which the time between reinforcements varies around some average rather than being fixed.
Variable-interval Schedule
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A behavior is reinforced in the presence of a specific stimulus but not in its absence.
Stimulus Control Training
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It signals the likelihood that reinforcement will follow a response.
Discriminative Stimulus
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The process of teaching a complex behavior by rewarding closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
Shaping
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A built-in limitations in the ability of animals to learn particular behaviors.
Biological Constraints
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A technique whose goal is to increase the frequency of desirable and decrease the incidence of unwanted ones.
Behavior Modification
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An approach to the study of learning that focuses on the thought processes that underlie learning.
Cognitive Learning Theory
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Learning in which a new behavior is acquired but is not demonstrated until some incentive is provided for displaying.
Latent Learning
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A mental representation of spatial locations and affections.
Cognitive Map
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Learning by observing the behavior of another person or model.
Observational Learning
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A psychologist that stated that a major part of human learning is consists of observational learning.
Albert Bandura
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Psychologist that studied that violent video games have also been linked with actual aggression.
Craig Anderson
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They urged parents to ensure that their children avoid exposure to violent media of any sort.
American pediatric Association
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It master material through understanding the "big picture" about something.
Relational Learning Style
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They do best when they first analyze the various components underlying an object, phenomenon, or situation.
Analytical Learning Style
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4 types of Partial Reinforcement Schedule
1. Fixed-Ratio Schedule 2. Variable-Ratio Schedule 3. Fixed-Interval Schedule 4. Variable-Interval Schedule

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