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| Fixed Interval Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| always the same period of time must pass until the subject recieves a reward. |
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| Variable Interval Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| average lenght of time for the response to the reward |
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| an event that decreases the behavior that it follows |
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| administering an aversive(unpleasant) stimulus(usually after undersiable behavior) |
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| removing a pleasant stimulus(usually after undersiable behavior) |
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| removing a pleasant stimulus(usually after undersiable behavior) |
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| removing a pleasant stimulus(usually after undersiable behavior) |
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| What are undesirable side effects of punishment? |
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| it temporarly supresses the action. it doesn't stop the behavior. |
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1)how should you use punishment?
2)which is better: postive or negative punishment? |
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1) keep it limited, don't use it often
2)postive reinforcement
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| a mental representation of the layout of the environment |
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| learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it |
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| learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it |
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| the effect of promising da reward for doing something a person already likes to do |
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| learning by observing others |
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| frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing other people preforning the same actions, possibly facilitatiing imitation and empathy |
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the tendency to remember past events more postively than we actually evaluated them at teh time that they happened
ex) college- "best days, wish i could go back" |
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| tendency to remember things that refer to ourselves better than things that refer to other people |
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| THINGS THAT HELP US LEARN |
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1)making material meaningful
2)incorporating visual imagery
3)relating the material to something you already know
4)relating it to yourself |
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| an early memory researcher |
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| vivid memory of an emotionally significant moment or event- not very accurate |
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| your relatively permanent store of memeories, with virtually unlimited capacity |
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| memory of limited capacity that holds a few items briefly, before the information is either stored or forgotten |
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| the immediate and very brief initial recording of information in the memory system by the sense organs |
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| the process of getting information out of memory storage |
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| the retention of encoded information over time |
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| the processing of information into the memory system |
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| any indication that learning has persisted over time |
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| VERY important- could not learn anything without memory |
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| What name is associtated with the study of observational learning? what was his experiment? |
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Albert Bandura.
took a 5yr old into a room and let him watch the experimenter hit a bobo doll. then they put him in a room with broken toys and a bobo doll. the 5yr old hit the bobo doll and said the same things the experimenter said. |
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positive observational learning.
people helping each other b/c they see others doing it. |
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| What is the typical duration and capacity in short term memory? |
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| What is the typical duration and capacity in short term memory? |
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| the number of things you can remember in short term memory |
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| do we ever run out of room in long term memory? how many items do we typically have? what is the capacity? |
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| no, we have 1 billion, the capacity is a million x a billion |
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| important principle about long term memories by EBBINGHAUS |
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| When it comes to long term memories of complex events, our actual memory is just a few high points, and we reconstruct or fill in the rest each time we recall that memory |
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