Physcology Flashcards
Process of learning associations between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses
Conditioning
Relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes due to experience
Learning
Learning that occurs when an NS (neutral stimulus) becomes paired with an unconditional stimuli to elicit a conditional response
Classical conditioning
Initial phase of learning, pairing UCS which results in decreased responding,
Acquisition
Presentation of a conditioned stimulus alone which results in decreased responding, or going away
Extinction
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response, when it comes out of nowhere
Spontaneous recovery
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
Generalization
Ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditional stimulus,
Discrimination
Involuntary responses are what kind of conditioning
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning, when they operate what will happen
Type of learning in which organisms associate their actions with consequences
Is a process in which reinforcers are used to guide an organisms actions toward a desired behavior
Shaping
Negative reinforcement
Taking something bad away
Negative
Take something away
Positive
Add something
Set amount of time to reinforce something
Fixed interval schedule
Variable intervals
Long goals, you don’t know when or what time something happens
Learning new behaviors or info by watching others
Observational learning
Internal record of some prior event or experience
Memory
Who is HM
Had epilepsy, had his hippocampus removed in his Brain then suffered from no memory of events after like 50 first dates
Belief we should focus on observable responses and discard and inner thoughts, feelings, and motives
Behaviorism
Associative learning- think they are connected
By linking two things together, you will know what to expect
When a learned behavior is reoccurred after a rest period
Spontaneous recovery
The ability to REACQUIRE a learned behavior in less time then when you originally learned it, less time
Savings
Learning that is exhibited only in the presence of an incentive or prize
Latent learning
Excessive rewards for accomplishing something
Overjustifivation
The CS is presented before the US, and the response is delayed until the US is available
Delayed conditioning
The CS is presented after the US
Backward conditioning
Physchoneuroimmunology (neuro)
Study of how psychology relates to events in the nervous system
What is learning that is exhibited only in the presence of a prize
Latent learning
The Premack principle
States that a preferred activity can be used to reinforce a non-preferred task
Is a cell in the hippocampus that only fires when an organism is in a specific location in natural environment
Place cell
Is the process by which sensory info is converted into a form that can be stored
Encoding
Previously stored info is moved from long term memory to working
Retrieval
Forgetting
Inability to retrieve info that has been previously stored
The act of applying the mind to a sense of thought
Attention
Means “containing factual and conceptual info that isn’t directly linked to life events
Semantic
Is the process of activating associations in memory just before starting a certain task
Priming
A phenomenon in which a person remembers info but forgets where the info came from
Source amnesia
Type of sensory memory involving visual stimuli
Iconic memory- eyeconic!
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
Chunking
Is a type of forgetting in which a person is told to forget certain info
Cued forgetting
Memories which a person isn’t consciously aware
Implicit memory
Memories that we re consciously aware of
Explicit
