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elaborative rehearsal is…
connecting new information to what is already known
What is declarative memory and what are the 2 types?
Declarative memory is for facts and events (what can be ‘declared’)
Type 1: Semantic/generic memory - general world knowledge or facts (eg. the chemical table)
Type 2: Episodic memory - memories of events, thoughts and feelings, autibiographical
If the frontal lobes are damaged, there will be deficits in…
episodic memory (of events/past), but not semantic (facts)
Trying to remember all of my past loves is an example of what type of task?
free recall task
Artisotle proposed a law that proposes 2 events will be associated if they are experienced close in time, it is the…
law of contiguity
Classical conditioning was originally proposed by…
Ivan Pavlov
Organisms learn to discriminate between 2 stimuli when they are not consistently associated with the dame…
UCS
In a clockwork orange, his illness in response to the music was a…
CR
The cat’s hiss that you learn to jump to the side for, is the…
CS
The dog’s bark that you learnt to jump away from is the…
CS
Expectancies that influence a wide variety of behaviours are called…
generalised expectancies
A behaviour hat has been partially reinforced is…
more resistant to extinction than a behaviour that has been continually reinforced.
Checking his old car for oil regularly is an example of…
negative reinforcement
The minimum amount of physical energy needed for a person to notice a stimulus is the…
absolute threshold
To best understand my experience of stimulus intensity in relation to the actual magnitude of the stimulus is…
fechners law
