Learning and Better Student

Question 1

Relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

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Learning

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Proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike that claims all learning is explained by selection and connections or bonds formed between stimuli and responses

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Connectionism

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Learning occurs when the learner is physiologically and psychologically prepared

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Law of Readiness

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Mastery learning can take place through repetitions and rehearsals

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Law of Exercise

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When the connection between the stimulus and the response is frequently used, the stronger will be the connection and learning is effective

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Law of Use

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When the connection between the stimulus and the response is not used over a period of time, the connection is weakened — learning becomes ineffective

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Law of Disuse

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This law states that when the connection between the stimulus is pleasant

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Law of effect

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Discovered Classical Conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov

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Studied observable, measurable behavior

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Burrhus Frederick Skinner

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Learning to increase or decrease a voluntary behavior using reinforcement or punishment

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Operant Conditioning

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Any consequences that makes a response less likely to happen again

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Punishment

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A stimulus that tends to maintain or increase the strength of a response.

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Reinforcement

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A stimulus, which when presented, increases the chance that the response will be repeated

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Positive Reinforcement

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A stimulus that has to be terminated or withdrawn to increase the likelihood that the response will be repeated

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Negative Reinforcement

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anything that decreases a behavior

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Punishment

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Adding an unpleasant response to decrease a behavior

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Positive Punishment

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decreasing the behavior by removing something pleasant.

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Negative Punishment

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Who proposed Observational or Social Learning

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Albert Bandura

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System that senses, organizes, alters, stores & retrieves information

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Memory

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refers to information processed in a short period of time

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Short-Term Memory

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allows us to store information for long periods of time

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Long-Term Memory

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Failure to properly store information for future use

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Forgetting

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2 Theories which explain why people forget

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Interference and Trace Decay

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Information learned EARLIER interferes with information learned LATER

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Proactive Interference

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Information learned LATER interferes with information learned EARLIER

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Retroactive Interference

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Physical change in the brain that occurs when a memory is formed

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Memory Trace

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Loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used

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Trace Decay

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is a process whereby sense organs receive information from the external and internal environments

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Sensation

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is the giving of meaning to the information received

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Perception