Category 1
Memory for "knowing how" in contrast to "knowing that"
What is procedural memory?
Memory of personal experiences
What is episodic memory?
Contains the sensory register, working memory (short-term memory), and long-term memory while executive processing decides what is worth mental energy and executes the learning plan
What is the information-processing theory?
When people subject stimuli to different levels of mental processing and retain only the information that was most thoroughly processed
What is the levels-of-processing theory?
When the combination of neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus incurs a similar response as unconditioned stimulus
What is a conditioned stimulus?
The tendency to learn the first items presented
What is the primacy effect?
The tendency to learn the last elements presented
What is the recency effect?
What is semantic memory?
The cause of the automatic response that occurs without prior training or conditioning
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
When a reinforcer is given after a fixed number of behaviors
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
When reinforcement is available at some times, but not at others and we do not know when a behavior will be reinforced
What is a variable interval schedule?
When the behavior is weakened and ultimately disappears
What is extinction?
Any consequences that weaken behavior
What is a punisher?
Any consequence that strengthens a behavior
What is a reinforcer?
A device containing a simple apparatus for studying the behavior of animals, usually rats or pigeons
What is a Skinner Box?
The automatic response that occurs without training or experience
What is an unconditioned response?
Regulates basic emoitons like fear, anger, and hunger
What is the amygdala?
Wrinkled and deeply furrowed, for the highest mental functions; 80% of the brain's weight
What is the cerebral cortex?
Controls the transfer of information from working memory to long-term memory
What is the hippocampus?
Spaces between the dendrites
What is a synapse?