Chapter 9
When a conditioned response reappears after extinction.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
This is the storage and retrieval of what has been learned or experienced
What is memory?
A visual mental representation
What is Image
An effective way of thinking about concepts.
What is imagery?
This is the fact that we are better able to recall info presented first or last on a list
What is Primacy Recency Effect?
stimulus originally has no effect
what is neutral stimulus
This is the first memory process and is the transformation of information so that the nervous system can process it.
What is encoding?
The ability to overcome rigidity, to remain open to alternate strategies.
What is flexibility.
A statement of relation between concepts.
What is Rule.?
This includes both episodic and semantic memory
What is Declarative memory?
learning from the consequences of behavior
what is operant conditioning?
Does not require conscious recollection to have past learning or experiences impact our performance
What is Procedural memory?
The apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem.
What is insight.
Flexibility, recombination, and insight
What is characteristics of creative thinking
Process in which reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses from old ones.
What is Shaping?
when the conditioned stimulus no longer has the conditioned response
what is extinction
When a person "remembers" information that was never stored in memory
What is Confabulation?
Inability to imagine new uses for familiar objects
What is functional fixedness
Image, symbol, concept, prototype, and rule
What is units of thought
Used to prevent unpleasant responses or unwanted behaviors.
What is Punishment?
The systematic application of learning principles to change people's actions.
What is Behavior Modification?
It is our knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings.
What is Semantic memory?
Example includes math problems.
What is Directed or convergent thinking?
Enables us to chunk large information together
What is Concept?
Process of altering behavior by observing & imitating others.
What is Social Learning?