Week 4

Question 1

Non-associative learning

Answer 1

when a single repeated exposure leads to a change in behavior

Question 2

Habituation

Answer 2

occurs when the response to a stimulus decreases with exposure

Question 3

Sensitization

Answer 3

occurs when the response to a stimulus increases with exposure

Question 4

Classical Conditioning

Answer 4

Stimulus-stimulus learning is when you are exposed to something happening that causes something else to happen repeatedly and learn it.

Question 5

Operant Conditioning

Answer 5

Stimulus-response learning is when you learn something because you experience it personally

Question 6

Working memory capacity

Answer 6

The form of memory we use to hold onto information temporarily, usually for the purposes of manipulation. Like how we remember where we are in a long math equation

Question 7

Metacognition

Answer 7

the knowledge and skills people have in monitoring and controlling their own learning and memory.

Question 8

Transfer-appropriate learning

Answer 8

A principle that states that memory performance is superior when a test taps the same cognitive processes as the original encoding activity.

Question 9

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 9

Recovery of an extinguished response that occurs with the passage of time after extinction. Can occur after extinction in either classical or instrumental conditioning.

Question 10

Renewal effect?

Answer 10

Recovery of an extinguished response that occurs when the context is changed after extinction. Especially strong when the change of context involves return to the context in which conditioning originally occurred. Can occur after extinction in either classical or instrumental conditioning