Learning
In operant conditioning, these are other names for positive or negative consequences.
What are rewards and punishments?
This is memory of a specific event.
What is episodic memory?
The communication of ideas through symbols that are arranged according to rules of grammar.
What is language?
This is a measurement of your ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply information.
What are genetics (nature) and environment (nurture)?
This researcher unintentionally determined the roles of conditioned responses and stimuli using a dog, a bell, and some food.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The organization of items into familiar or manageable units.
What is chunking?
An example of an object that best exemplifies the characteristics of the concept.
What is a prototype?
The ability to process, comprehend, and apply information vs. the ability to recall, retrieve, or access info (2 words).
What are intelligence vs. memory?
Define retardation and gifted in terms of IQ scores.
What are IQ scores below 70 and above 130?
This acronym is a tool used to help retain information from reading texts.
What is the PQ4R method?
What is the 3rd stage of information storage?
What is Long-Term Memory (LTM)?
Term, used in social media search results, that is a procedure that will always lead to the solution of a problem (when used properly in the right circumstances).
What is an algorithm?
This psychologist is behind the theory of multiple intelligences.
The psychologist behind the theory of emotional intelligence.
Who is Daniel Goleman?
This occurs when people learn to do (or not do) certain things based on the results of what they do.
What is operant conditioning?
Share at least 3 factors that can contribute to false / incorrect memories.
brain injury, illness, anxiety, drug use, time, age, repression, coercion, etc.
Rules of thumb that help us find solutions to problems (but are not always accurate).
What are heuristics?
This is a type of intelligence that might be more influential than general IQ in predicting success in life.
This term refers to a person with a special skill in a particular field, discipline, or talent in childhood (i.e. Mozart).
What is a prodigy?
Encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Planning, evaluating, and monitoring mental activities ("thinking about thinking").
What is metacognition?
What are picture (visual-spatial), nature (naturalistic), number (logical-mathematical), people (interpersonal), word (verbal-linguistic), life (existential), body (kinesthetic), self (intrapersonal) and music?
What is massed learning or "cramming"?