9.1
It's what causes the reaction or response before learning anything
What is Unconditioned stimulus?
A well know psychologist known for operant conditioning.
Who is BF Skinner?
A method of retaining short term memory by repeating info to yourself
What is maintenance rehearsal?
is the action of reconstruction of information.
What is recall?
A mental process that has the following characteristics: Flexibility, Recombination, and Insight
What is Creative Thinking?
This is the original response to an original stimulus
What is unconditioned response?
The process where reinforcement is used to create new responses from old ones.
What is shaping?
The storage and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced.
What is memory? (200 pts)
Techniques for using associations to memorize information.
What are mnemonic devices?
A visual, mental representation of an event or object.
What is an image?
The conditioned response reappearing after extinction
What is spontaneous recovery?
A specific number of correct responses that is required before reinforcement can occur
What is fixed ratio?
When information is brought to mind from storage.
What is retrieval?
This process provides insight into how information is stored in memory.
What is recongnition?
A label for a class of objects or events that have at least 1 attriubute in common.
What is a concept?
reflecting behavior on other people or your surroundings.
what is modeling?
Satisfies biological needs like sleep.
What is a Primary reinforcer?
Memory involving both semantic and episodic memory.
What is declarative memory?
may involve decay, interference, and repression
what is forgetting?
is a systematic and logical attempt to reach a specifc goal or answer
what is directed or convergent thinking?
This famous case proved that emotional responses could be classically conditioned
What is Little Albert?
An organism that is trained to remove unpleasant stimulus
What is escape conditioning
The senses of sight and hearing are able to hold an input for a fraction of a second.
What is sensory memory?
This can result from drug use or severe psychological stress
what is amnesia?
A habitual pattern of solving problems
What is Mental Set?