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Undergraduate 1
09/13/2014

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Term
Short Term Memory
Definition

1. Rehersal

2. Maintenance

3. Elaborative

 

You can remember 5-9 things

"Working Memory"

Term
Chunking
Definition
Breaking down into understandable units
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Sensory Memory
Definition

1. Echo

2. Icon

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Long Term Memory
Definition

1. Importance

2. Declarative/ Fact Memory

3. Semantic

4. Episodic

5. Procedural/ Skill memory

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Contructive Processing
Definition

Mind constantly adding and subtracting

things from the memory

Term
Schema
Definition
Body of knowledge
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Redintegration
Definition
Memories coming back from being in a cerain place
Term
4 ways to demonstrate learning...
Definition

1. Recall

2. Recognition

3. Relearning

4. Priming/ giving hints

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Pseudo Memories
Definition
False Memories
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Implicet
Definition
you have memories you know you have
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Explicet
Definition
Memories you dont know you have
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Eidetic Memories
Definition
Photo graphic memory can hold an image in their head
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Mnemonics
Definition

memory techniques

(method of Loci)

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Explinations of Forgetting
Definition

Encoding Failure

Disuse

Decay

State Dependant

Cue Dependant

Interference- Proactive & Retroactive

Repression & Suppression

Amnesia- Anterograde & Retrograde

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Retroactive
Definition
When you learn something new and forget old
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Proactive
Definition
Youcant learn a new damn thing!
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Flashbulb Memories
Definition
Very vivide memory, specific detailed memories
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Consolidation
Definition
Gives time for memories to set
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Hippocampus
Definition
Part of the brain involved with longterm memory
Term
Cortisol
Definition
Stress
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Repression
Definition

A memory that you unconsciously forget. Your mind

just shuts out the bad memory

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Suppression
Definition
Consciously trying to forget something
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Behaviorists believe...
Definition

learning is conditioning.

You have learned to be a certian way.

Term
Pavlov
Definition
The guy who studied dogs and the reactions to meat and bells.
Term
Unconditioned Response
Definition

A response that is natural

ex. dogs salivation when given meat

Term
Controlled Response
Definition

A reation that is learned of "controlled" by something

 

ex. Dogs salivation after learning meat comes everytime a bell rings.

Term
Stimulus Generalization
Definition
Associating and assuming 2 things are the same
Term
Stimulus Discrimination
Definition
Learning 2 simaliar things are in fact different
Term
Phobias
Definition
Irrational fears
Term
Positive Reinforcment
Definition
you do something and you get a reward
Term
Negitive Reinforcment
Definition
NEGAT or take away the bad thing
Term
Positive Punishment
Definition
Giving bad or discouraging behavior
Term

Reponse Cost

(Negitive Punishment)

Definition

Take good away.

Ex. Take license away 

Term
Albert Bandura believed...
Definition
You learn from other people around you.
Term
B.F Skinner
Definition
The guy that put mouses in a box
Term
Fixed Ratio
Definition
You have to do something so certain amount of times nd then you are rewarded
Term
Variable Ratio
Definition

you dont know when the reward comes. 

"One more time."

Term
Fixd Interval
Definition
You get a reward at a certain time.
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Variable Interval
Definition
Term
Variable Interval
Definition
You have to do the right thing but you dont know when the right time is.
Term
Learning
Definition
A eduring or permanant change in behavior or knowledge that results from previous experience.
Term
Associative Learning
Definition
invloves learning by making a relationship or connection between two events
Term
Non associate Learning
Definition
invloves learning about a single stimulus.
Term
Classical Conditioning
Definition

Pavlov: Conditioned Relfex

A kind of learning when a neutral stimulus ends up producing a response that used to be happen because of another stimulus.

Term
Operant Conditioning
Definition
A kind of learning in which the consequences that follow some behavior increase or decrease the likelihood of te behavior's occurence in the future
Term
Cognitive Learning
Definition
A kind of learning that invloves mental processes, such as attentio and memory. May be learned by observation or imitation and may have a reward.
Term
Neutral Stimulu
Definition

A stimulu that causes a sensory response such as being heard or seen, but does not produc the relfex being tested

 

Ex. The bell, which dogs hear but doesnt normal produce a response at first.

Term
unconditioned stimulu
Definition
a stimulus that triggers a reflex such as food. When food is given dogs aotumatically salivate.
Term
Unconditioned response
Definition

a natural response to the unconditioned stimulus

 

ex. the dogs salivtion when given food

Term
Conditioned stimulu
Definition

The "used to be neutral stimulus" that has now aquired the ability to get a response that originally was brought on by the "unconditioned stimulus"

 

 

Term
Conditioned Response
Definition
this reponse is brought on by the conditioned stimulus, it is similar b ut not identical in size or amount to the unconditioned response.
Term
Spontaneous Recovery
Definition
the tendancy for the conditioned response to reappear after being extinguished even though there have been no further conditioneding trails.
Term
Anicipatory Nausea
Definition
refers to the feelings of nausea that are elicited by stimuli associated with chemo therapy treatments
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Systematic Desensitization
Definition
A procedure based on classical conditioning in which a person imagines fearful stimuli and then immediatly uses relaxation to overcome anxeity
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Adaptive Value
Definition
the usefulness of certain abilities or traits that have envolved in animals and humans and tend to increase their chances or survival
Term
Tatse Adversion Learning
Definition
associating a particular sensory cue with getting sick and then avoiding that sensory cue in the future.
Term
Operant Conditioning
Definition
learning in which an animal or human does something and the following consiquence  increases or decreases the chance that that behavior will be preformed again
Term
Thorndikes Law of Effect
Definition
states behaviors followed by positive consequences are strengthend. Behaviors followed by negative consequences are weakend.
Term
Shaping
Definition
procedure in which a experimenter successfully reinforces behaviors that lead up to the desired behavior
Term
Primary Reinforcer
Definition
a stimulus that satifies and requires no learning on the part of the subject
Term
Secondary Reinforcer
Definition
stimulus that has aquired its reinforcing power through experience
Term
Schedule of reinforcment
Definition
a program that determines how or when the occurance of a response will be rewarded
Term
Continuous Reinforcement
Definition
every occurance of behavior results in reinforcement
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Partial Reinforcement
Definition
situation in which responding is reinforced only sometimes
Term
Cognitive learning
Definition
invloves mental processes like attention and memory and learning can accur through observation or imitation. May not have reward.
Term
Cognitive Map
Definition
a mental representation in the brainof the layout of an environment and its features
Term
Social Cognitive Theory
Definition
Emphasizes the importance of observation, imitation, and self reward in the development and leanring of social skills and other behaviors
Term
Insight
Definition
"ah ha" moment
Term
Encoding
Definition
making mental representations of info so that it can be placed into our memories
Term
Storing
Definition
process of placing encoded information into relatively permanent mental storage
Term
Retrieving
Definition
The process of getting or recalling info that has been placed into short term meory or long term
Term
Sensory Memory
Definition
initial process that receives and holds environmental info in its raw form for a little bit of time
Term
iconic Memory
Definition
form of sensory memory that automatically holds visual info for a quarter of a second or more
Term
Echoic Memory
Definition
sensory memory that holds auditory info
Term
Primacy Effect
Definition
better recall, or improvement in retention of info presented at the beginning of a task
Term
Declarative Memory
Definition
memories for facts or events
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Semantic Memory
Definition
type of declarative memory and involves knowledge of facts concepts words definitions and language
Term
Episodic Memory
Definition
a type of declarative memory and involves knowledge of specific events, personal expiences or activities
Term
procedural Memory of nondeclaritive memory
Definition
Memories for motor skills
Term
Levels of Process theory
Definition
says that remembering depends on how info is encoded
Term
Neural assemblies
Definition
neurons that allow shirt term memories to be made
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