Social Learning
Adjusting behavior to bring it in line with a group standard.
What is conformity?
Putting individual pieces of information together to reduce the total number of individual items you have to remember. You do this with your phone number.
What is chunking?
Patterns of thought or behavior that organize categories of information and the relationships among them
What are schemas?
Your mental age, divided by your chronological age, times 100.
What is IQ / Intelligence Quotient?
The theory that suggests we are motivated by a need to maintain a balance between excitement & boredom.
What is the theory of optimal arousal?
You doing what I ask you to do because I’m the teacher.
What is obedience?
The part of memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.
What is working memory?
When performing multiple cognitive tasks at once, the interference slows down processing or performance speed. Often demonstrated by reading different colored words.
What is the Stroop Effect?
A single underlying construct that unifies the different abilities and skills measured on intelligence tests.
What is the general intelligence factor?
The process of perceiving & responding to events that we view as challenging or threatening.
What is stress?
Changing your behavior, unconsciously or consciously, to fill a social gap.
What is social role-playing?
The memory of autobiographical events, or the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place.
What is episodic memory?
The introduction of an undesirable consequence with the goal of reducing the frequency of the targeted behavior.
What is positive punishment?
The accumulated knowledge of the world we have acquired throughout our lives. It increases with age.
What is crystalized intelligence?
An increase in reactivity or wakefulness that prepares us for some kind of action.
What is arousal?
Key features of social learning include attention, retention, repetition, and this.
What is motivation?
A brief store of mainly verbal information together with a rehearsal mechanism.
What is the phonological loop?
A set of processes that allow you to manage your cognitive resources.
What is (Central) Executive Function?
Sternberg’s three-part theory of intelligence says people display varying degrees of analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and this.
What is practical intelligence?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs says we can only work towards this best version of ourselves when our basic needs have been met.
What is self-actualization?
In Social Learning Theory, the idea that one's behavior affects the social environment, and vice-versa.
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
A 'backup' storage system that communicates with both long-term memory and the components of working memory.
What is the episodic buffer?
A series of rewards that provide positive reinforcement for behavior changes that are steps towards the final desired behavior
Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences suggest that the development of different talents and skills in different people is a function of this.
What is evolution?
The idea that our physical expressions help regulate our emotions.
What is the Facial Feedback hypothesis?