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Habituation

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Repeated exposure to the same stimulus can cause a decrease in response.

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Dishabituation

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~The recovery of a response to a stimulus after habituation has occurred.
~When a second stimuli intervenes, causing desensitization to the original stimulus.
~Causes an increase in the original stimulus.

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Associative Learning

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~Creation of a pairing, or association, either between two stimuli or between a behavior and a response

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Classical Conditioning/ Acquisition

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~Takes advantage of biological, instinctual responses to create associations between two unrelated stimuli.
~Unconditioned stimuli, unconditioned response, neutral stimuli, conditioned stimulus and conditioned response.

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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Any stimulus that brings a reflexive response.

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Unconditioned Response

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Innate or reflexive response.

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Extinction

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~If the conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus enough times, the organism can become habituated to the conditioned stimulus.
~When the bell rings without the presence of food, the dog may stop salivating.

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Spontaneous Recovery

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If an extinct conditioned stimulus is presented again, a weak conditioned response can sometimes be exhibited.

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Generalization

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~A stimulus similar enough too the conditioned stimulus can also produce a conditioned response.
~Little Albert

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Discrimination

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An organism learns to distinguish between two similar stimulus.

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Operant Conditioning

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Links voluntary behaviors with consequences in an effort to alter the frequency of those behaviors.

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Reinforcement

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Process of increasing the likelihood that an individual will perform a behavior.

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Positive Reinforcement

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Increases behavior by adding a positive consequence or incentive.

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Negative Reinforcement

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They increase a behavior by removing something unpleasant.

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Escape Learning

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The role of behavior is to reduce the unpleasantness of something that already exists.

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Avoidance Learning

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Prevent the unpleasantness of something that has yet to happen

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Primary Reinforcer

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A treat that the organism responds to it naturally

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Conditioned Reinforcer/ Secondary Reinforcer

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Like a click in aquariums

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Discriminative Reinforcer

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The trainer that har the clicker.

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Punishment

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Reduces the presence of the behavior.

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Positive Punishment

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Adds an unpleasant consequenceina response to a behavior to reduce that behavior.

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Negative Punishment

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Reduction of behavior by removing stimulus.

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Reinforcement Schedules

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Fixed-Ratio, Variable-Ratio, Fixed-Interval and Variable-Interval

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Fixed-Ratio

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Reinforces behavior after specific amount of times.

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Variable-Ratio

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~Resistant to extinction.
~Reinforce a behavior after a varying number of performances of the behavior, but such that the average number of performances to receive a reward is relatively constant.

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Fixed-Interval

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Reinforces the first instance of a behavior after a specified time period has elapsed.

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Variable-Interval

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Reinforces a behavior the first time that the behavior is performed after a varying interval of time.

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Fixed Schedules

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Have a brief moment of no response after the behavior is reinforced

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Shaping

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The process of rewarding increasingly specific behaviors.

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Latent Learning

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~Learning that occurs without a reward but that is spontaneously demonstrated once a reward is introduced.
~Complete the task and gets rewarded Ince its completed.

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Problem Solving

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~Humans and chimpanzees tend to use problem solving instead of trial and error
~Step back, observe the situation, and take the decisive action to solve the challenges they face.

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Preparedness

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~Nature abilities. Instincts.

~So its easy to teach birds how to peck because they are already wired to do that.

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Instinctive Drift

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~Can’t mess with food-gathering instincts.

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Observational Learning

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Process of learning a new behavior or gaining information by watching others.

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Mirror Neurons

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~Located in the frontal and parietal lobes.
~Fires when individual performs the acton and when the individual observes someone else doing it.
~Related to empathy and vicarious emotions

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Modeling

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~An important factor in determining an individuals behavior throughout his or her lifetime.
~People learn what behaviors are acceptable by watching others perform them.

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Encoding

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The process of putting new information into memory.

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Automatic Processing

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Gained without effort.

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Controlled/ Effortful Processing

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~You need effort in order to know them.

~This can become automatic

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Visual Encoding

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~Weakest.

~Visual

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Acoustic Encoding

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~Store the way to sounds.

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Semantic Encoding

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~Second strongest

~Put it into a meaningful context.

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Self-reference

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~Strongest.

~When we put it into a context of our own lives.

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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The repetition a piece on information to either keep it within working memory (to prevent forgetting) or to store it in short-term and eventually into long-term

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Mnemonics

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EX: Very Much Hungry (Ventromedial hypothalamus)

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Methods of Loci

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~Involves associating each item in a list with a location along a route through a building that has already been memorized.
~Eggs in the hallway, milk spilling in hallway is an example.

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Peg-word

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System associates numbers with items that rhyme with or resemble the numbers.

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Chunking/ Clustering

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~Involves taking individual elements of a large list and grouping them together into groups of elements with related meanings.

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Sensory Memory

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~Lats a very short time
~Fades very quickly
~Iconic –> visual
~Echoic –> auditory

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Short-Term Memory

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~Disappears 30 seconds without rehearsal.
~Limited to about 7 items.
~Can be increased by cluttering information.
~Housed primarily in the hippocampus.

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Worming Memory

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~Integrates attention and function
~Simple math in our heads.
~Frontal and parietal

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Long-Term Memory

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~Hippocampus, but very long term goes to the cortex.
~Elaborative rehearsal
~Explicit and implicit memory

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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The association of the information to knowledge already stored in long-term memory

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Implicit Memory

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~Unconscious
~Skill and conditioned responses.
~Procedural/ Nondeclerative memory –> Skills and tasks

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Explicit Memory

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~Require conscious recall
~Conscious
~Declarative memory –> facts and events.

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Declarative Memories

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~Episodic –> Events and experiences

~Semantic –> Facts and concepts.

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Retrival

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~The process of demonstration that something that has been learned has been retained.

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Recall

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The retrieval and statement of previously learned information.

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Recognition

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Process of merely identifying a piece of information that was previously learned

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Relearning

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~Previously stored information is recalled quicker.

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Spacing Effect

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~The longer the amount of time between sessions of learning, the longer the amount of time between sessions of relearning.
~This explains why cramming is not that effective.

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Semantic Network

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Concepts are linked together on similar meaning.

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Spreading Activation

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One word can bringup similar words with similar meanings.

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Priming

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Recall is aided by first being presented with a word or phrase that is closed to the desired semantic memory.

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Context Effects

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Memory is aided by being in the physical location where encoding took place

MCAT: Behavioral Sciences (3 decks)

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