Learning
More Learning
Memory
Forgetting
Consciousness & Cognition
100
This man used dogs to study salivation but ended up discovering a classic learning theory
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
According to this theorist, Learning is all about Reinforcement
Who is B.F. Skinner
100
This is the "Magical" capacity of Short Term Memory.
What is 7 bits of information.
100
This theory of forgetting is often called the "Use It of Lose It" theory.
What is the Decay theory.
100
This story like state of mind often occurs while we sleep.
What is Dreaming
200
This is what happens when a similar conditioned stimulus causes the same conditioned response.
What is Generalization?
200
Losing your cell phone privileges for a week is an example of this type of Punishment.
What is Punishment by Removal
200
Memories such as opening a door and working the television remote are examples of this type of Long Term memory
What is Procedural memory
200
This theory states that forgetting something occurs because the unconscious hides things from us.
What is Motivated Forgetting
200
This approach to problem solving is often the very first one we learn as a child.
What is Trial and Error
300
Slot Machines are an excellent example of this Schedule of Reinforcement.
What is a Variable Ratio schedule of Reinforcement
300
In terms of schedules of reinforcement, this one focuses on time?
What is Interval schedule?
300
Remembering where you were and what you were doing on September 11, 2001 (9/11) is an example of this phenomenon of memory.
What is Flash Bulb Memory
300
This psychologist found that we typically forget more than 40% of what we know within 20 minutes time.
Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus?
300
This concept tends to disprove the Restorative Theory of Sleep
What is the Second Wind Phenomenon?
400
This typically describes anything that you do not like
What is Aversive Stimuli?
400
If a Conditioned stimulus and an Unconditioned stimulus are no longer associated, then this will occur.
What is Extinction?
400
If you go back to the room in which you started so as to help you remember something, this phenomenon of memory is in place.
What is State (Context) Dependent Memory.
400
Not remembering which direction Lincoln's head faces on a penny is often due to this type of Forgetting
What is Encoding Failure
400
This sleep disturbance is basically a neurological disorder with no known cure.
What is Narcolepsy?
500
This can result when subjects incorrectly believe that something they did actually caused their good fortune.
What is Superstition?
500
Sultan and Grande were subjects of this learning theorist.
Who was Wolfgang Kohler?
500
This is the name of Joshua Foer's Memory Technique.
What is a Memory Palace
500
This gentlemen's memory loss has long been used as a classic example of Anterograde Amnesia
Who was Henry Gustav Molaisson
500
According to Freud, this is what we call the actual, often symbolic, meaning of one's dreams.
What is Latent Content
M
e
n
u