Learning, Memory, Motivation, Emotion Flashcards
Sensory Storage
Forgotten easily like the header color example
Working memory
Actively working on right now like simple math (like calculating 37 times 42 in your head)
Process of transferring experience into memory
Encoding
Info gained without effort (passive)
Automatic processing
Actively work to acquire info
Controlled processing
Semantic encoding
Place in context (Mr. Baker - bread donuts, he is a baker)
Implicit (nondeclarative) long term memory
Skills and conditioned responses (bike riding)
Memories that require recalling via memorization
Explicit long term memory declarative
Pathological loss of memory
Amnesia
Comes from within and driven b interest
Intrinsic motivation
Comes from outside oneself (want to achieve a better grade)
Extrinsic motivation
Innate fixed patterns of behavior in response to stimuli
Instinct theory
Psychological and physiological state of being awake and reactive to stimuli
Arousal theory
Helps humans survive by motivation to eliminate uncomfortable state
Drive reduction theory
How we allocate our energy and resources to best satisfy needs
Need Based Theory