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| a stimulus response pair in which the stimulus automatically elicits the response |
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| the CS remains on until after the UCS is presented so that the two stimuli occur at the same time |
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| period of time between turning off the the CS and the onset of the of the UCS, when neither stimulus is present |
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| stimuli similar to the CS elicit the CR |
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| stimulus that the animal or human finds pleasant |
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| stimulus that the animal or human finds unpleasant |
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| innately reinforcing, reinforcing since birth |
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| is not innately reinforcing but gains its reinforcing property through learning |
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| application of conditiong principles, especially operant principles, to eliminate undesirable behavior and to teach more desirable behavior |
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| training the animal to make the response they want by reinforcing successive approximation of the desired response |
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| a record of the total number of responses over time |
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| temporary recovery of the operant response following a break during extinction training |
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| stimulus that has to be present for the operant response to be reinforced or punished |
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| theory of motivation which proposes that our behavior is motivated to reduce drives created by unsatisfied bodily needs to return the body to a balanced internal state |
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| theory of motivation proposes that our behavior is motivated by incentives |
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| theory of motivation which proposes that our behavior is motivated to maintain an optimal level of physiological arousal |
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| decrease in an intrinsically motivated behavior after the behavior is extrinsically reinforced and then the reinforcement discontinued |
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| tendency for an animal to drift back from a learned operant response to an innate, instinctual response to an object |
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| learning that occurs but is not demonstrated until there is incentive to do so |
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| learning by observing others and imitating their behavior |
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| average number of items an individual can remember across a series of memory span trials |
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| a meaningful unit in a person's memory |
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| explicit memory for factual knowledge |
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| explicit memory for personal experiences |
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| implicit memory for cognitive and motor tasks that have a physical procedural aspect to them |
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| person with sever memory deficits following brain surgery or injury |
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| process of moving information from one memory stage to the next |
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| the process of maintaining information in a memory stage |
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| the process of bringing information stored in long-term memory into short-term memory |
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| a new way to interpret a problem that immediately yields the solution |
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| a tep by step problem solving procedure that gaurantees a correct answer to a problem |
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| problem solving strategy that seems reasonable given past experience with solving problems but does not gaurantee a correct answer to a problem |
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| questioning a well-established research finding because one knows a person who violates the finding |
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| intelligence is mainly a function of a general intelligence (g) factor |
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| seven primary mental abilities -- verbal comp, number facility, spatial relations, perceptual speed, word fluency, associative memory, and reasoning |
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| two types of intelligence; crystallized and fluid knowledge |
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| eight independant intelligences; linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist |
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| three types of abilities; analytical, creative, and practical |
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| index of the degree that variation of a trait within a given population is due to heredity |
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| genetically determined limits for an individual's intelligence |
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| shows that the results from the IQ tests have changed significantly over the last century |
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