Definitions
What someone experiences when they cannot access memories from before a traumatic event
What is retrograde amnesia?
A conscious association between behaviors and their consequences would be this
What is operant conditioning?
When reinforcement is give after an action has been completed a varying amount of times
What is variable ratio?
If you were afraid of birds and you took it upon yourself to look at photos of birds while listening to your favorite song in an attempt to reduce your anxiety, you would likely be attempting this
What is systematic desensitization?
You remember the last song from that movie you watched last night better than any other song because of this
What is the recency effect?
When stimuli from our environment are converted into neural signals that are sent to the brain
Before Pavlov introduced the bell into the conditioning process, the bell was this
Neutral stimulus
Frances got a high five for doing something awesome, and because of this he wants to keep being awesome. The high five is an example of this
What is positive reinforcement?
If you're taking the exam and problem #8 is a fill in the blank, you'll utilize this to access the memory of containing the answer
What is recall?
The tendency for newer and inaccurate information obtained after an event to distort one's original memory of an event
What is the misinformation effect?
Matching stimuli with stored information using retrieval cues
What is recognition?
A learned condition to a stimuli, like how you learned to stay away from someone who is crabby
What is conditioned response?
Taking an antacid before a spicy meal is a behavior you would be maintained by this
What is negative reinforcement?
When you think back to the music and laser lights at the concert you went to last week, you are accessing this type of memory
What is a sensory memory?
This type of memory has the smallest capacity
What is short-term memory?
Long-term memory of motor skills and automatic behaviors that you don't have to think about when you perform them is this type of memory
What is procedural memory?
This was discovered when Ivan Pavlov recognized that organisms associate two unrelated stimuli when paired repeatedly
What is classical conditioning?
If your parents keep adding chores to your list because you refuse to do them, they are utilizing this
What is positive punishment?
What is the encoding specificity principle?
When you have a hard time remembering your friend's new phone number because of the memory of their old phone number
What is proactive interference?
Enduring change caused by experience within environment
What is Learning?
If seeing horror movies makes me shriek reflexively, horror movies can best be described as this
Unconditioned stimulus
If Greg has his pokemon card collection confiscated by his parents because he misses his curfew, his parent's are implementing this
What is negative punishment?
When you think about your high school graduation, you are accessing this type of memory
What is episodic memory?
Forgetting happens during this stage of the memory process
What are all of the stages of the memory process?