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| type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcement or diminished if followed by punishment |
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| a gradual process that begins with reinforcement of some behavior that gets closer to the final behavior desired |
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| reinforce behavior after a set number of responses; increase rate of response |
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| provide reinforcers after an unpredictable number of responses ; unpredictable reinforcement |
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| reinforce the 1st response after a fixed time period |
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| Variable Interval Schedules |
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| reinforce the first responcse after varying time intervals |
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| the intial stage conditioning; the phase asssociating a neutral stimuls with unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimuls comes to elicit a conditioned response |
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| diminishing of a condtioned response |
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| the reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response |
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| the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses |
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| the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that does not signal an unconditioned stimulus |
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| the ability to retrieve information not in conscious awareness |
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| vivid memories of emotionally charged events |
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| brief photographic memory |
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| memory of an auditory stimulus |
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| degenerative condition that destroys brain cells & impairs attention and memory |
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| smallest distinct units of sounds |
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| the smallest unit that carries meaning |
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| Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis |
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| the perception of reality differs according to the language of the observer |
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| a step by step procedure that guarentees a solution. It is a mechanical procedure for problem solving |
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| menta " rules of thumb " which allow us to make judgement and solve problems efficiently |
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| refers to the consistency of people's scores on a test |
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| refers to how well a test measures what it is supposed to measure |
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