PSY-120 Exam 3 Flashcards
How many types of learning are there?
There are 3 types of learning.
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Observable Conditioning
What is the definition of learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge due to experience.
What is classic conditioning?
Study of how a natural stimulus could result in a natural response. It involves learning by association.
Who was Pavlov?
He was physiologist who studied the digestive system of dogs. He measured dogs Sylvia. Do do this he used Classical Conditioning.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Is more complicated at explaining things then Classical. It works because it ether Reinforces or Punishes the subject through effect. It’s about the consequences. Operant is more spontaneous.
What Type of learning did Watson use?
Watson used Operant Conditioning, even though he meant to use classical. He conditioned a baby called little Albert.
What is acquisition?
Learning a new response.
What did Watson say about Phobic disorders and fear?
That fear can be conditioned and learned. That phobic disorders can be developed. That fear was not unconscious. That fear is not symbolic.
What is single-trial learning?
When learning circumstances are particularly intense, learning can sometimes occur after just one pairing of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
What is Stimulus Generalization?
If an organism learns a response to one particular stimulus, then a similar stimuli will also tend to elicit the same response.
What is Stimulus Discrimination?
Organisms can also learn to distinguish between one particular stimulus and other similar stimuli.
What is Extinction?
The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response that occurs when the conditioned stimulus is presented once more, then the conditioned response may temporarily reappear.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
When a period of time has passed since extinction, if the conditioned response may temporarily reappear.
What is Chunking?
Connecting your short-term memory to your long-term memory. You take info from your long-term memory and use it to organize your short-term memory.
What is Semantic encoding and when does it take place?
It focuses on the underline meaning of the information being stored. Semantic encoding takes place when you story information into long-term memory.
