Dogs, drool and Pavlov
This is the process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and elicits a similar response.
What is classical conditioning?
This area of memory holds information indefinitely, and has no storage limits.
What is Long term memory?
This bias is the tendency to recognize other people’s biases, but not our own.
What is blind spot bias?
Alfred Binet created the first type of this, to determine which children would benefit from attending schools
What is an intelligence test?
Ron had to undergo a painful procedure in a hospital when he was a child. Now, every time Ron walks past a hospital, he gets anxious and nauseated. In this scenario, in the context of classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus is the:
What is the hospital?
This produces a response without prior learning.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
In Baddeley’s theory of memory, this is the portion of short-term memory that stores visual and spatial information.
What is the Visuo-spatial sketchpad?
This bias is the tendency to avoid taking action due to increased weight of a potential loss versus any gains
What is loss aversion bias?
Sternberg’s Theory of multiple intelligence states that intelligence comes in these three forms.
What are analytical, creative, and practical intelligence
Psychologists have divided learning into these two categories.
What are Associative and Observational?
This is a previously neutral stimulus that now elicits a conditioned response.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
The Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory of Memory involves these three types of memory
What are sensory, short term, and long term memory?
Lolita uses her kitchen knife to cut vegetables. She always uses her knife for either slicing bread or for chopping meat. Despite these uses, Lolita also occasionally uses the knife to unscrew nails from her kitchen equipment. This alternate way of using the knife shows that Lolita has overcome what type of learning problem
What is functional fixedness?
Morphology, phonology, syntax and semantics are all properties of this.
What is language?
This concept is described as an understanding that everyone thinks, feels, perceives, and has private experiences
What is theory of mind?
This is an unlearned reaction automatically elicited by the unconditioned stimulus.
What is an unconditioned response?
This part of memory allows for up to 30 seconds of storage, and the storage of 7 (+/- 2) pieces of information at a time.
What is short term memory?
Freisha intends to learn cooking but is confused about the type of cuisine she aims to learn. According to the steps in problem solving, the first step that must be taken by her is to:
What is find and frame the problem?
The main criticism of some intelligence testing is that they demonstrate this:
What is a cultural bias?
Thomas is playing his video game and is about to complete the last level. He seems unaware that his mom has been calling him for long. What aspect of consciousness is Thomas demonstrating?
What is selective attention?
This is a learned response to a conditioned stimulus
What is a conditioned response?
When attempting to store many pieces of information, you are more likely to remember
What are items at the beginning and items at the end of a group
This bias is placing too much weight on the first piece of information received.
What is anchoring bias?
This is the stage of language development where infants/babies repeat certain sounds.
What is babbling?
A class project required a student nurse to make hourly records of her own blood pressure and body temperature over a 30-day period. When the data were graphed, it was evident that these readings changed in a predictable way on a daily basis. What biological cycle is responsible for this?
What is circadian rhythm?