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Process of learning associations between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses

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Conditioning

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Relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes due to experience

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Learning

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Learning that occurs when an NS (neutral stimulus) becomes paired with an unconditional stimuli to elicit a conditional response

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Classical conditioning

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Initial phase of learning, pairing UCS which results in decreased responding,

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Acquisition

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Presentation of a conditioned stimulus alone which results in decreased responding, or going away

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Extinction

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The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response, when it comes out of nowhere

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Spontaneous recovery

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A tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for a stimulus similar to the conditioned, for a stimulus to the conditioned stimulus to produce similar responses, are alike

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Generalization

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Ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditional stimulus,

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Discrimination

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Involuntary responses are what kind of conditioning

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Classical conditioning

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Operant conditioning, when they operate what will happen

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Type of learning in which organisms associate their actions with consequences

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Is a process in which reinforcers are used to guide an organisms actions toward a desired behavior

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Shaping

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Negative reinforcement

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Taking something bad away

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Negative

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Take something away

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Positive

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Add something

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Set amount of time to reinforce something

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Fixed interval schedule

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Variable intervals

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Long goals, you don’t know when or what time something happens

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Learning new behaviors or info by watching others

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Observational learning

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Internal record of some prior event or experience

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Memory

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Who is HM

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Had epilepsy, had his hippocampus removed in his Brain then suffered from no memory of events after like 50 first dates

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Belief we should focus on observable responses and discard and inner thoughts, feelings, and motives

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Behaviorism

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Associative learning- think they are connected

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By linking two things together, you will know what to expect

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When a learned behavior is reoccurred after a rest period

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Spontaneous recovery

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The ability to REACQUIRE a learned behavior in less time then when you originally learned it, less time

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Savings

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Learning that is exhibited only in the presence of an incentive or prize

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Latent learning

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Excessive rewards for accomplishing something

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Overjustifivation

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The CS is presented before the US, and the response is delayed until the US is available

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Delayed conditioning

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The CS is presented after the US

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Backward conditioning

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Physchoneuroimmunology (neuro)

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Study of how psychology relates to events in the nervous system

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What is learning that is exhibited only in the presence of a prize

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Latent learning

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The Premack principle

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States that a preferred activity can be used to reinforce a non-preferred task

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Is a cell in the hippocampus that only fires when an organism is in a specific location in natural environment

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Place cell

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Is the process by which sensory info is converted into a form that can be stored

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Encoding

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Previously stored info is moved from long term memory to working

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Retrieval

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Forgetting

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Inability to retrieve info that has been previously stored

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The act of applying the mind to a sense of thought

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Attention

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Means “containing factual and conceptual info that isn’t directly linked to life events

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Semantic

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Is the process of activating associations in memory just before starting a certain task

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Priming

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A phenomenon in which a person remembers info but forgets where the info came from

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Source amnesia

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Type of sensory memory involving visual stimuli

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Iconic memory- eyeconic!

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Go many items of info can be held in the working memory at any give time

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Process of organizing large pieces of info into smaller, or chunks

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Chunking

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Is a type of forgetting in which a person is told to forget certain info

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Cued forgetting

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Memories which a person isn’t consciously aware

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Implicit memory

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Memories that we re consciously aware of

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Explicit

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