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Learninfa and Cognition- Exam 1
Chapter 1 through 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/20/2012

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Korte's Law
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Statements describing aspects of apparent motion, such as the relation between the ISI and the spatial separation required for motion to be perceived.

 

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Muller-Lyer Illusion
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The arrow illusion in which the shank with the outward wings appear longer than the shank with the inward wings even though the shanks are the same objective length.

 

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Signal Detection
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A procedure that provides a separate measure of sensitivity and response bias for situations in which observers are required to detect the presence of a faint target.

 

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Simon Effect
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Response time may be reduced and accuracy may increase when a stimulus is presented in the same relative location as the response required.
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Stroop Effect
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The difficulty participants have in naming ink colors of color words when the ink colors and the color words do not agree.
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Between-subjects experiment
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An experimental design in which two or more independent groups of participants are compared.  The focus is on differences in the average performance of the various groups rather than the behavior of the individual participants.
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Control condition
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A condition in which subjects do not receive a training procedure but are treated the same way in all other respects as subjects that are trained.  Performance in the control condition is compared to performance in the experimental condition in the basic learning experiment.
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Evolution
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Change in a physical or behavioral trait that occurs across successive generations because of differential reproductive success.
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Experimental Condition
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A condition in which subjects receive a training procedure.  Performance in the experimental condition is compared to performance in the control condition in the basic learning experiment.
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Experimental observation
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Observation of bahavior under conditions specifically designed by an investigator to test particular factors or variables that might influence the learning or performance of the behavior.
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Fatigue
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A temporary decrease in behavior caused by repeated or excessive use of the muscles involved in the behavior.
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Learning
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An enduring change in the mechanism of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those stimuli and responses.
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Maturation
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A change in behavior caused by physical or physiological development.
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Motivation
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A hypothetical state that increases the probability of a coordinated set of activities or activates a system of behaviors that functions to satisfy a goal such as feeding, predatory defense, infant care, or copulation.
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Naturalistic Observation
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Observation of behavior as it occurs under natural conditions, in the absenceof interventions or manipulations introduced by the investigator.
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Performance
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An organism's activities at a particular time.
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Practice
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Repetition of a response or behavior, usually with the intent of improving performance.
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Single-subject experiment
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A type of experiments in which learning is investigated through extensive obsrevation of the behavior of a single individual.  The individual's behavior must be sufficiently well understood to permit accurate assumptions about how the subject would have behaved if he had not received the training procedure.
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Stimulus-stimulus learning
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The learning of an association between two stimuli, such that presentation of one of the stimuli activates a neural representation of the other.
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