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| best use of reinforcement to extinct behavior? |
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| What is the Garcia Effect and who did it refute? |
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experiment of rats learning taste with illness not with shock. Refuted skinner and palov
emphasis on evolution programming us to learn different things |
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| Are humans a general purpose computer that are trained to learn everything? |
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| "Give me 12 children and I can train them to be doctors" |
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RADICAL BEHAVIORIST
Behavior caused by EXTERNAL CUES AND CONSEQUENCES
Whats important is what the subject thinks is happening, not what is really happening
NO FREE WILL
Behavior changed through rewards |
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| focuses on conditioning of the ENVIRONMENT |
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CONDITIONAL REFLEX- behavior depends on environmental conditions
learning occurs when neutral stimuli pairs with unconditioned stimuli, forming conditioned stimuli
studied dog's that salvated even without food |
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| absence of unconditional stimuli with conditioned stimuli |
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| Higher-order conditioning |
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| learning a new behavior through thoughts of something else |
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| What is needed in order for something to classical conditioned after pairing with neutral and unconditioned stimuli? |
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| Neutral stimuli must PREDICT OR SIGNAL unconditioned stimuli |
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CONSEQUENCES
response produces effects on environment |
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OPERANT CONDITIONING
reinforcing actions to push in right direction for intended result |
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| behavior learned through beliefs, perceptions and observation of others |
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| learning something without remembering HOW |
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sensory(seconds)
short term (7 +-2)
long term |
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| Most studied person in medicine? |
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HM Henry Moalison
couldn't form new memories |
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| confusing someone else's memories with yours |
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| Is memory reconstructive? |
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| implicit unconscious memory |
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| unconscious retention of memory- uses old memories that affect making new ones |
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| method of measuring implicit memory, retrieval cues that bring up the past |
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| what is memory compared to? |
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| information processing models |
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| Short term memories, 7 +- 2 |
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| How are words organized in Long Term Memory? |
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Semantic categories- apple = fruit
based on experience and education |
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| knowing HOW to do something by remembering its procedure |
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knowing something is TRUE
TWO TYPES: SEMANTIC AND EPISODIC |
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| What holds memory for 1/2 a second? |
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| What changes in neurons occur in STM? |
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| alters ability to release neurotransmitters |
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| what changes in neurons occur in LTM? |
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| lasting structural changes in the brain |
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| Which area in the brain is the destination of declarative memories? |
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| Which part of the brain combines all info from different sections of the brain to develop one memory? |
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| How does adrenal hormones enhance memory? |
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release of nonrephinephrine and glucose
norephinephrine sends stronger signals
glucose increases sugar level and alters effects of neurotransmitters |
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| Which part of the brain is associated with procedural memories? |
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| Which part of the brain is associated with declarative memories? |
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| 5 mechanisms of forgetting |
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decay
replacement
intereference
cue dependent forgetting
psychological amnesia |
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| remembering something because of experiencing the same emotional state as before. |
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| what kind of memories do children produce? |
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procedural memories
can't make episodic memories before 4 years old |
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| What did Freud believe caused childhood amnesia? |
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| 3 explanations for childhood amnesia? |
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brain development
cognitive development
social development |
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| Are eye witnesses always true |
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| Who argued expression of emotion is innate? |
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different cultures have different rules about expressing emotion
can change universal display of emotions |
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| Theory of polygraph (lie detector test)? |
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| can detect lies through increase in sympathetic arousal (fear or anger) however CIRCUMSTANCES can effect increase in heart rate |
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Darwin- evolution
Alert system- (auto pilot)
Priority System (priorities to analyze some situations) |
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| 2 theories of intelligence? |
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Alert system
priority system |
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same event can affect and arouse 2 people differently based on interpretation
affected by
AROUSAL
INTERPRETATION |
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| responds to other's behavior and INTENTIONS, not just muscles being used. |
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| for short term, not long term |
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| physical disease influenced by psychological factors such as stress |
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| what is the prefrontal cortex associated with in emotion |
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| which side of the brain is said to be "happier" |
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RECOGNIZES DANGER
key role in emotion dealing with anger and fear
evaluates emotional importance
makes initial decision to approach or withdraw |
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| energies body to respond to stressors |
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excreted during HPA
elevates blood sugar and protects from INFLAMATION in case of injury |
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| What personality type is associated with heart disease due to hostility? |
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fosters emotional tranquility
form of secondary control |
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theraputic hormone that induces relaxation
mothering and attachment and hugging |
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Homeostatis (negative feedback)
Drive Reduction (reduce our desire) |
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| Vasopressin associated with? |
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| protein that regulates appetite |
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| 5 reasons for rising number of overweight people? |
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processed food
sugar drinks
lack of exercise
portion size
variety |
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| two most Important hormones for social bonding? |
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| What do evolutionary psychologists believe gender roles reflect? |
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| biological differences from natural selection |
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| what do social cultural psychologists believe gender roles reflect? |
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| Is sexual orientation gentic? |
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| midly, more likely if have older brothers |
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| expectations lead us to succeed or fail |
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| types of personality theories |
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trait
biological
behavorist/learning
psychoanalytic.freudian
humanist
other |
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| do genes influences temperment or personality? |
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| temperment, we can change the way we view the world and behave |
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| do genes influence personality directly? |
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| no, influence the world we live in (our temperament) |
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| animalistic sexual energy focusing on different parts of the body until we reach genetial stage |
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| babies are suppose to continue on with the other stages but something goes wrong and they get FIXATED/STUCK in the oral stage. |
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repression
displacement
regression
sublimation/direct displacement |
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| not important on how mother treated you but WHAT YOU THINK OF IT |
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| Jung theory of personality |
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archetypes
collective unconsciousness
first to come up with intro/extravert |
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| Adler theory of personality |
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personalities major force is POWER
INFERIOR COMPLEX developed in childhood
Birth order |
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| Adler theory of personality |
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personalities major force is POWER
INFERIOR COMPLEX developed in childhood
Birth order |
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| self actualization, focusing on positive aspects of life and emphasis on free will |
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low self esteem so only act as good as they think they are
congruence with ideal self |
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| How to define abnormal behavior? |
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statistical
social
adjustment |
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psychosexual stage in childhood that makes us want sex from our parents
most crucial stage in personality
when resolved we enter latency stage then gentile stage |
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| cluster of personality traits that are universal throughout the world |
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| how did raymond cattel advance study of personality? |
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| does genetic disposition imply inevitability? |
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| no, environment can influence it |
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| environment and characteristics of individual shape personality |
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philosophy of existentialism
face inevitable challenges in search of meaning for life.
free will comes with harsh realities |
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