The stimulus that produces no natural response
What is a neutral stimulus?
The smallest unit of language that has meaning
What is a morpheme
Learning that occurs without reinforcement and remains unnoticed until applicable
What is latent learning?
In this model different parts of a memory are stored in different parts of the brain
What is parallel processing model?
Breaking down a task into smaller elements that are then learned individually and put together
What is chaining?
Something that involves adding a negative experience to decrease a targeted behavior
What is positive punishment?
The most complex level of language analysis, which involves taking into account Culture and context
what is pragmatics?
Learning that involves a breakthrough that connects multiple elements of knowledge
What is insight learning?
In this model of memory, information processed at only a superficial level is unlikely to be remembered
what is levels of processing model?
When information is brought from long term back to working memory it is called this
what is retrieval?
The response to a stimulus that is naturally ocurring
What is unconditioned response?
The smallest unit of language that produces sound but has no independent meaning
what is phenome?
The type of learning that involves association between things that produce a response and things that dont
What is classical conditioning?
Open answer questions where answers must be recalled with few external cues are an example of
the first stage of the memory where sensory input is converted into a meaningful form that can be stored and retrieved later
What is encoding?
This Psychologist is most responsible for the study and understanding of classical conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov
Chomsky came up with the idea that this mechanism plays a role in language learning
What is Language Acquisition Device?
The four elements in observational learning are attention, memory, imitation, and __________
what is desire?
In the parallel processing model of memory, parts of a memory are stored in different _______ in different areas of the brain
What are nodes
The main experiment relating to observational learning, specifically the effects of witnessing violence
what is Bandura's Bobo Doll experiment?
A reinforcer that is given when available, not in response to the amount of times the action is completed and not with much consistency is
What is variable interval?
The period in early childhood where one is primed and able to learn language
What is Critical Period?
The ‘ah ha’ moment in insight learning typically comes after a ____________________, a time of stepping back from the problem/task
What is Period of incubation?
The different stages of memory in the Information processing model are _______, ________, and __________
What is sensory, short term/working, and long term?
The psychologist who came up with the law of effect, prompting research into operant conditioning
who is Edward Thorndike?