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psyc 211 ch 10 & 11
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/14/2012

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Watson & Raymond
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Littl Albert experiment. Albert was trained to generalize on white rats
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Thorndike
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1892. trained cats to claw out of box A. Cats generalized on Box C & Box D
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Freud
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Believed that nothing is really forgotten.
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Donald Overton
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Gave rats a tranquilizing drug and then taught them to run a simple t-maze. Later, when the drugs wore off he tested the rats and found that they appear to have forgotten. = state-dependent learning
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Donahoe & Mars
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Trained pigeons to peck a disk when it was green, but not red. Bird was able to discriminate even 12 years after.
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Ebbinghaus
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Learned a list of nonsense syllables. If it took fewer trials to learn the list the second time, the savings provided a measure of forgetting
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John McGeoch
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Said time cannot explain forgetting, because time is not an event
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Willim Kreuger
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Asked adults to learn three lists of words, each containing 12 one-syllable nouns. The overlearning group did much better
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Harry Bahrick
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found that a good indication of how well a person remembers spanish 20, 30, and even 50 years later depended on how thoroughly they learned it.
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Ericsson and Karat
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demonstrated that forgetting occurs rapidly when we learn unrelated words, random digits, and nonsense syllables. Read words from John Steinbeck in scrambled order.
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De Groot
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chess board experiment
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Levine and Murphy
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Students who were procommunist forgot more of the anticommunist, while students who were anticommunist forgot more of the communist passage
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Loftus
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Showed film about a car accident, asked them if they saw the/a broken tail light.
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Bill Putnam
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Hypnotized people were more likely to make mistakes if it was suggested that they did see it
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Diveck and Repucci
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gave students unsolvable problems. When given solvable problems, students generalized on giving up.
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Razran
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Lollipop, Gum, Sandwitch, salivation. Participants generalized on synonyms
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Honig and Slivka
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showed generalization in suppression of pigeons when they would peck disks of similar color
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Karl Lashley
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Rat on small platform. learned to jump on card that results in food
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Watanabe
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trained pigeons to discriminate between picasso and monet
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Herbert Terrace
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Errorless discrimination training
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Trapold
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found that pigeons leaned to peck appropriate disks faster if 2 behaviors produced different consequences
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Mayashita
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Trained horses, DOE effect
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Pavlov
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Said discrim. training produced physiological changes in the brain
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Spence's theory
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Inhibitory/Excitatory gradients, peak shift,
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Lashley-Wade
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Prior experience
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Herstein
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photos with and without trees to pigeons
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Spence
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monkey learned concept of "larger than" choice
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Roger Shepard
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mental rotation
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Reit and Phelps
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trained students to discriminate between geometric shapes that did not match sample
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