Learning
"Little Albert" and Company
Memory
Do you see what I see
IQ is over 9000
100

Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience

What is Learning

100

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?

100

The three processes in memory.

What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?

100

This effect involves introducing misleading information or questions that manipulate what an individual says and remembers.

What is the misinformation effect?

100

A category for organizing objects and events in the environment.

What is a concept?

200

A type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another.

What is Classical Conditioning?


200

The individual who conducted the Little Albert Experiment.

Who was John Watson?


200

The most temporary stage of memory.

What is sensory memory?

200

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. 

What is a flashbulb memory?
200

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?

300

Time out is an example of this kind of approach to behavior modification.

What is Negative Punishment?

300

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?

300

This occurs when information already stored in memory gets in the way of recalling newer information.

What is Proactive Interference?

300

The observer's tendency to rebuild pictures of past events around the incomplete details that are remembered.

What is constructive memory?

300

The general strategies, or mental shortcuts, we typically use to make decisions.

What are heuristics?

400

A system that promotes learning through techniques such as using a sticker chart to potty train a child.

What is a Token Economy?

400

John Watson's research involving Little Albert's fear of white furry objects and animals demonstrates this kind of conditioning.

What is emotional conditioning?

400

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?

400

This type of memory relates to visual memory.

What is iconic memory?

400

The extent to which a test accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.

What is validity?

500

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?

500

The individual responsible for studies on observational learning, such as the bobo doll studies. 

Who is Bandura?
500
Repeating a list of words several times, so you can better remember them is an example of this. 

What is rehearsal?

500

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?

500

According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence, this form of intelligence is also known as "street smarts"

What is contextual intelligence?

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