Learning
Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience
What is Learning
The phenomenon that occurred when little Albert demonstrated the same fear towards white furry objects and animals as he did to the white rat.
What is generalization?
The three processes in memory.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This effect involves introducing misleading information or questions that manipulate what an individual says and remembers.
What is the misinformation effect?
A category for organizing objects and events in the environment.
What is a concept?
A type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The individual who conducted the Little Albert Experiment.
Who was John Watson?
The most temporary stage of memory.
What is sensory memory?
This form of memory is an extremely vivid memory of the conditions surrounding one's first hearing the news of a surprising, shocking, or highly emotional event.
According to Gardner's Intelligence Theory, this form of intelligence has to do with how an individual relates and communicates with others.
What is interpersonal intelligence?
Time out is an example of this kind of approach to behavior modification.
What is Negative Punishment?
The type of learning that discourages a young boy from taking a cookie without asking after seeing his older brother get in trouble for doing so.
What is observational learning?
This occurs when information already stored in memory gets in the way of recalling newer information.
What is Proactive Interference?
The observer's tendency to rebuild pictures of past events around the incomplete details that are remembered.
What is constructive memory?
The general strategies, or mental shortcuts, we typically use to make decisions.
What are heuristics?
A system that promotes learning through techniques such as using a sticker chart to potty train a child.
What is a Token Economy?
John Watson's research involving Little Albert's fear of white furry objects and animals demonstrates this kind of conditioning.
What is emotional conditioning?
The finding that memory is better for things at the beginning and the end of a list as compared for memory for things in the middle of the list.
What is the serial position effect?
This type of memory relates to visual memory.
What is iconic memory?
The extent to which a test accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
The finding that behaviors followed by positive consequences are strengthened, but behaviors followed by negative consequences are weakened.
What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
The individual responsible for studies on observational learning, such as the bobo doll studies.
What is rehearsal?
A form of motivated forgetting that can cause traumatic memories to be so deeply buried in an individual's unconscious mind that they have lost all awareness of them.
What is repression?
According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence, this form of intelligence is also known as "street smarts"
What is contextual intelligence?