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Learning=conditioning
Vocab, lobes, right bran left brain, etc.
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Psychology
12th Grade
03/13/2012

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Shaping

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Reinforcing behavior by giving praise and treat.

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Extinction

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Occures if behavior response is not reinforced.

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Learned Helplessness

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Tendency to fail/act/escape from situation because of failures in the past.

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Generlaization

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When you react/make connection to sound.


EX: Brainerd's daughter reacting to microwave sasages when she hears timer "Beep"

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Discrimination

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Brainerd's daughter able to know the difference between "beeps."
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Reinforcment Values

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If person likes object a lot, they are willing to work for it.

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Self Motivated
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Extrensic Modivation

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Motivated by award

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Name each lobe of brain and fuction
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Frontal: Motor activity, speech, mood and    thinking.

Parital: Understand language, sensations, touch/pain, temperature.

Occipital: Vision

Temperal: Hearing

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What are the right and left halves of brain responsible for?
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Right: New experiences, creativity, facial recognition, problem solving, music, imagry.

Left: Recall of math, word recognition, speech, memory (Old experiences),

Homos have bigger left side making them more femimin.

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How is teenage brain diferent from adult?
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In the vid,

-Teens use different parts of the brain to identify emotions.

Their frontal cortex, cerebellum, and amigdala is undergoing changes during teen years. 

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Diference between classical and operent conditioning.
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Classical: voluntary

Operent: involuntary

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Why is punishment not concidered the best way to change behavior?
Definition
Punishment is always bad for a person, in order to make it sucessful is to make the subject feel good, like positive reinforcment; immediate, consistant and short term.
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If you want to increase grades of students, what schedule of reinforcment should you give quizzes: fixed interval or fixed ratio?
Definition
Fixed ratio, because the person has to acieve something to get reward, not know that they are gonna get it by waiting.
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Design experiment that will connect a neural stimulus with unconditional response (Be able to identify the US, CS, UR, CR.)
Definition

If smell of favorite snack (the unconditioned stimulus) had been paired with the sound of a clicker (the conditioned stimulus), would eventually come to evoke the conditioned response of hunger. However, if the unconditioned stimulus (the smell of food) was no longer paired with the conditioned stimulus (the clicker), then the conditioned response (hunger) would eventually disappear. 

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Difference between positive and negative reinforcment which is more effective and why?
Definition
Both is actually good. Negative reinforcment is taking somethig away to make subject feel better, and postive is to add something to make subject feel better. Either way, it helps the subject feel good in the end.
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