Midterm Flashcards

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Evidence that learning has occur is seen in ?

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Changes of behavior

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Epistemology

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How we know the world

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College professor concerned about lack of attention by students during lectures, is considering a study if the effects of room temperature on state of consciousness. The independent variable is?

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State of conscious

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Elementary school student attends classes on the last day of school despite illness, so she will not miss out on the perfect attendance award, this is an example of?

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Behaviorist explanation

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Pavlov- SALIVATION THAT FOLLOWED THE BUZZER Was the?

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Conditioned response

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Raising a hand to answer a question is?

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A learned behavior

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Little Albert demonstration illustrated ?

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The effects of emotional conditioning

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Contiguity is

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Simultaneous paring of stimulus and response

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Moody math teacher introduces fractions-students seem unmotivated to learn- this can be attributed to?

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Pairing the teachers attitude with the context

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Thorndike

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One activity an be satisfying to one person but not to the other

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Thorndike las of effect fits well with the theory of?

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Skinner

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Trial and error

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Trying all keys later to find out none of them fit

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Deduce

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To infer logically

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13
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Logically construct

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Inferred but not observed

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14
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Independent variable is?

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Manipulated by the experimenter

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Changing tv channels, cd’s in stereo, turning on and off pc, riding bicycle are all examples of?

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Operant behavior

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16
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Operant continuing compares with?

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Natural selection

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17
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Being allowed to leave after 6 hrs but receiving a full 8 hrs pay

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Negative reinforcement

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18
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Tennis- breakdown of the skill into components is named?

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Shaping

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Operant is to respondant as?

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Act is to reAct

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More probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behaviors. Person will most likely perform at an activity if they know the consequence is that they could partake in a more desirable activity

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Premack principle

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21
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Skinner - extinction occurs when ?

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Behaviors is not reinforced

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22
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Metaphor

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I.e the brain is a computer

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Synapse

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Space btwn neurons

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24
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Brain is?

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Plastic

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25
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Reductionist theory

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Tries to bring everything to its smallest component

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26
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Hypothesis testing

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Experiments

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27
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Scientific method

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Observe - question - hypothesis - experiment - result and conclusion

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28
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Reflex

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Involuntary

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Operant -WHEN TRAINED BEHAVIOUR IS NO LONGER REINFORCED OR IF THE REIFORCEMENT IS NO LONGER REWARDING

Classical- WHEN A CONDITIONED STIMULUS IS NO LONGER PAIRED WITH AN UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE.

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Extinction

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Behavior

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The way in which one conducts oneself

31
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Evolution

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PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH DEFINED BY ITS ATTENTION TO BIOLOGY AND GENETICS AS SOURCES OF EXPLANATION FOR HUMAN LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR

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Cognitive

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MENTAL ABILITY RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE. I.E ATTENTION, MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY, JUDGEMENT AND EVALUATION, REASONING AND COMPUTATION, PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKNG COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE

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Aversion learning TASTE

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Learned response to eating the foods that made you Ill

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Instinctive drift

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After a behavior is stablished it gets disrupted by the intrusion of some instinctive behavior

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Biofeedback

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Procedures by which individuals are give information about their biological functioning

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Ethology

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Science of animal behavior

37
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Humans are biologically equipped to acquire language… Who said this?

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Chomsky

38
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We have taste aversion for?

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Survival

39
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Parkinson neurotransmitter

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Dopamine

40
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Directional flow in neuron

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Dendrite
Cell body
Axon

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Electrical chemical activity

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How neurons connect

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Neurotransmitters

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NOREPERIPHERINE, ENIPERIPHERINE, HISTAMINE, SEROTINE, DOPAMINE

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Latent learning

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Observed behavior but never practiced

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Tolamans theory

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We learn because there is a purpose to it

45
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Gestalt

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Rationalized thinking WHOLE

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Right brain

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Art
Emotional
Intuitive
Creative

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Left brain

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Logical
Cautious
Rational
Math

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Sharpening

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Tendency to emphasize the distinctiveness of a pattern

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Proximity

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Tendency to perceive things that are close together to as belonging together

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Closure

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Tendency to perceive incomplete objects as being complete

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Leveling

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tendency toward symmetry bs forward reducing abnormalities

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Method of teaching- all senses

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The more senses you use to learn the more you will recall later

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Gestalt law perception

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CONTINUITY-CLOSURE-PROXIMITY-SIMILARITY-SIMPLICITY

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Set

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Selectivity among responses

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Attention

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Selectivity among input

56
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Discrimination according to Behaviorists

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ABILITY TO DIFFERENTIATE BTWN A CONDITIONED STIMULUS AND OTHER STUMULI THAT HAS NOT BEEN PAIRED WITH A CONDITIONED STIMULUS

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Thorndike – Satisfying statE of affairs

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THE ORGANISM MAKES A NUMBER OF RESPONSES, ONE OR MORE OF WHICH LEADS TO A SOLUTION OR SATISFYING STATE OF AFFAIR.”

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Hull

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Tried to predict behavior with math

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Skinner

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Accepted classical conditioning that it only explained certain not all behaviors

60
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Differences btwn female bran and make brain

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Corpus callosum has a thicker measurement in female; Male brain 10% larger than female; Female 9.5% more white matter; Male 6.5 % more gray matter; FRONTAL Cortex more precisely organized in women and bigger in volume; Males have better cognitive maps formation.

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Dependent variable

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Something you measure

62
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Behaviorism theories are concerned with

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Objective events such as stimuli response and rewards

63
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Thorndike

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Animals learn thru trial and error so stamped out

64
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Reflexes

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Sucking,knee jerk, eye blink, pupillary dilation and they can be classical conditioned

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Evolutionary psychology

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Behaving in a way to continue the species

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Henna rule

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Repeated transmission of impulses btwn 2 neurons leads to permanent facilitation btwn them

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Independent variable

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What can change

68
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Dependant variable

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What you measure

69
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Cell body

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Soma