Learning
In Pavlov's classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with this word.
What is learned?
The set of processes that are used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.
What is memory?
You repeat it to yourself over and over again until you feel like you won’t forget it.
What is rehearsal?
This type of development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.
What is physical?
An individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments.
What is self-efficacy?
The repeated reinforcement of a behavior every time it happens.
What is continuous reinforcement?
The type of memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What is explicit memory?
The process of regaining a skill or ability that has been partially or entirely lost.
What is relearning?
Nature refers to this in the nature vs nurture debate.
What are genes and biology?
Our stable characteristics and ways of behaving.
What are traits?
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response resulting in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.
What is extinction?
This kind of memory involves the storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is sensory memory?
The ability to identify previously encountered events, objects, or people. Multiple choice questions on an exam.
What is recognition?
A one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge.
What is a zygote?
An individual's perception of the underlying main causes of events in his/her life.
What is locus of control?
The re-emergence of conditioned responding to an extinguished conditioned stimulus (CS) with the passage of time since extinction.
What is spontaneous recovery?
Information about events we have personally experienced.
What is episodic memory?
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
When development proceeds in a stepwise fashion with periods of growth interrupted by periods where growth is not occurring.
What is discontinuous?
A proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics.
What is heritability?
Behavior charts are an example of this type of partial reinforcement.
What is a fixed ratio reinforcement schedule?
Remembering the state capitols.
What is semantic memory?
The introduction of new memories interferes with old memories.
What is retroactive interference?
Freud suggested that people who are dominated by this part of their personality might be narcissistic and impulsive.
What is the id?
Refers to the feeling that one lacks worth and doesn’t measure up to the standards of others or of society.
What is the inferiority complex?