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Unit 4 Learning and Cognitive Processes Flashcards

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Who is your teacher

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Coach Brackett

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The technique of operant conditioning in which the desired behavior is “molded” by first rewarding any act similar to that behavior and then requiring ever-closer approximations to the desired behavior before giving the reward.

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Shaping

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When a person’s or animal’ sold response becomes attached to a new stimulus.

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Classical Conditioning

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A stimulus which initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention.

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Neutral Stimulus

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A pattern of reinforcement in which specific number of correct responses is required before reinforcement can be obtained

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Fixed-Ratio Schedule

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A pattern of reinforcement in which an unpredictable number of responses are required before reinforcement can be obtained

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Variable-ratio schedule

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What is the fading away of a memory over time?

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Decay

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What is the process that occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and replaces what was there already?

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Interference

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What is a memory device that creates a meaningful link between new information and material that is already known?

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Elaborative rehearsal

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What is the act of filling memory gaps?

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Confabulation

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What is the conceptual frame works a person uses to make sense of the world?

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Schemas

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What is the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short-term exposure?

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Eidetic memory

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What are the techniques of memorizing information by forming vivid associations or images, which facilitate recall and decrease forgetting?

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Mnemonic devices

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In classical conditioning, what is the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response because the reinforcement is withheld or because the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without unconditioned stimulus?

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Extinction Conditioning

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What is a form of learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in the likelihood that similar actions will occur again.

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Operant conditioning

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The memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object,idea, or stimulation as one he or she has not experienced before is?

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Recognition

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Our knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings.

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Semantic Memory

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What is a representative example of a concept?

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Prototype

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What is a statement of relation between concepts?

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Rule

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The smallest unit of meaning in a given language

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Morpheme

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Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences

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Syntax

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The study of meaning in language

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Semantics

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What is the awareness of one’s own cognitive processes?

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Metacognition

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What is a once-neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of training in which it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus?

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Conditioned Stimulis

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What is a response elicited by the conditioned Stimulis; it is similar to the unconditioned response, but not identical in magnitude or amount?

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Conditioned Response

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An internal state that activates behavior and directs it toward a goal

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Motivation

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Innate tendencies that determine behavior

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Instincts

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Biological or psychological requirement of an organism

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Need

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A state of tension produced by a need that motivates an organism toward a goal

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Drive

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The tendency of all organisms to correct imbalances and deviations from their normal state

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Homeostasis

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An external stimulus, reinforcer, or reward that motivates behavior

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Incentive

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Engaging in activities that either reduce biological needs or help us obtain external incentives

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Extrinsic motivation

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Engaging in activities because they are personally rewarding or because they fulfill our beliefs and expectations

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Intrinsic motivation

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The part of the hypothalamus that produces hunger signals

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Lateral Hypothalamus (LH)

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The part of the hypothalamus that can cause one to stop eating

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus (VMH)

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Biological drives that must be satisfied to maintain life

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Fundamental needs

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The urge to belong and to give and receive love, and the urge to acquire esteem

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Psychological needs

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The pursuit of knowledge and beauty or whatever else is required for the realization of ones unique potential

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Self-actualization needs

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A set of complex reactions to stimuli involving subjective feelings, physiological arousal, and observable behavior

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Emotion

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A mental picture of spatial relationships or relationships between events

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Cognitive map

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Alteration of a behavioral tendency that is not demonstrated by an immediate, observable change change in behavior

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Latent learning

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Condition in which repeated attempts to control a situation fail, resulting in the belief that the situation is uncontrollable

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Learned helplessness

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Our memory of our own life, such as when you woke up this morning.

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Episodic Memory

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Memory of knowledge that can be called fourth consciously as needed.

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Declarative Memory

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Memory of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection.

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Procedural Memory

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What is changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new information?

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Thinking

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The ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli; the unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their race, ethnic groups, age, gender, or membership in another category rather than on the basis of individual characteristics.

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Discrimination

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What is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing !?

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Insight ;]

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in classical conditioning, the tendency for a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a response that is similar to the conditioned response.

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Generalization

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What is a visual, mental representation of an event or object?

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Image

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What learning reflects behavior shown firsthand or goes with mental processes rather than instinct

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Social and cognitive learning

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What is an abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality?

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Symbol

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What is a label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common?

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Concept

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A system for remembering that involves repeating information to oneself without attempting to find meaning in it

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material is?

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Recall

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The alteration of recalled memory that maybe simplified, enriched,or distorted ,depending on an individuals experiences, attitudes , or inference is?

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Reconstructive processes

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The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember

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Chunking

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Learning by imitating others; coping behavior

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Modeling

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Systematic application of learning principles to change people’s actions and feelings

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Behavior modification

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Conditioning in which desirable behavior is reinforced with valueless objects, which can be accumulated and exchanged for value rewards

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Token economy

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The storage and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced

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Memory

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What is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way??

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Language

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The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it

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Encoded

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What is an event that elicits a certain predictable response typically without previous training?

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Unconditioned stimulus

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What is an organisms automatic natural reaction to a stimulus?

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Unconditioned response

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The process by which information is maintained over a period of time

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Storage

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A person’s behavior causes an unpleasant event to stop

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Escape conditioning

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Where the person’s behavior has the effect of preventing an unpleasant situation from happening

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Avoidance conditioning

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What is the process of moving information from storage?

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Retrieval

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The senses of sight and hearing are also called

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Sensory Memory

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Things being held in the conscious mind are known as?

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Short term memory

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A stimulus or event that increases the likelihood that behavior will be repeated.

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Reinforcement

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One that satisfies a biological need such as hunger, thirst, or sleep.

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Primary reinforcement

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One that has been paired with a primary reinforcer and through classical conditioning has acquired value and reinforcement.

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Secondary Reinforcement

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What is the basic structural element of language?

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Phoneme

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What is a pattern of reinforcement in which a specific amount of time must elapse before a response will elicit reinforcement?

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Fixed interval schedule

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What is a pattern of reinforcement in which changing amounts of time elapse before a response will obtain reinforcement?

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Variable interval schedule

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A fixed set of procedures that, if followed correctly, will lead to a solution

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Algorithm

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A rule-of-thumb problem-solving strategy

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Heuristics

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A habitual strategy or pattern of problem solving

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Mental set

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The inability to imagine new func- tions for familiar objects

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Functional Fixedness

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