Learning
Who discovered classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
An event that occurs during intense emotional arousal preserved with special accuracy and clarity
Flashbulb memory
Complex psychological state that involves cognitive, physiological, and behavioral response
Emotions
Innate human behaviors
Instinct Theory
Forces acting on or within an organism to initiate and direct behavior
Motivation
Who completed the Little Albert experiment?
John B. Watson
Strength of record weakens over time if not activated
Decay Theory
Physiological response causes emotions
James-Lange theory
Motivated to achieve personal potential
Humanistic Theory
Psychologist who studied consequences of behavior
Edward Thorndike
Who founded operant conditioning?
B. F. Skinner
Impairment of memory for information acquired prior to the onset of amnesia
Retrograde Amnesia
Stimulus - physiological arousal and experience of emotion occur simultaneously
Cannon Bard Theory
Use success as a motivator
Self-determination Theory
What part of the brain is involved in fear / anger?
Amygdala
Bobo Doll Experiment
Albert Bandura
Progressive deterioration / impairment of memory, reasoning, language, and other cognitive functions as a result of disease, injury, or substance abuse
Dementia
Stimulus - physiological arousal and interpretation of situation leads to an emotional response
Schachter and Singer Theory Cognitive Processes
Behavior motivated by need to reduce unmet biological needs to restore system to homeostasis
Drive Theory
Errors, distortions, false memories (type of forgetting)
Partial Forgetting
Removing something to increase behavior
Negative reinforcement
Name three types of memory
Procedural, episodic, semantic
Cognitive evaluation based on perception, learning and memory trigger specific emotions
Cognitive Appraisal Theory - Smith & Lazarus
Must satisfy autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs - intrinsic vs. extrinsic needs
Self-determination theory
2 methods of encoding memory
Maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal