Chapter 9
Learning by imitating others or copying behavior.
What is Modeling?
Type of learning associated with the Little Albert experiment.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The active reconstruction of information
What is Recall?
you keep repeating information.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
A visual mental representation of an event or object
Image
Watching someone else do the an action and then being able to closely produce it.
What is Observational learning?
Dog salivating towards the bell
What is a conditioned response?
A loss of memory that may occur after a blow to the head is called what?
What is Amnesia?
Information is maintained over a period of time.
What is storage?
A statement of relation between concepts
What is Rule?
An unpredictable number of responses are required before reinforcement.
What is Variable-ratio?
What is it when desired behavior is positively reinforced with meaningless objects that can be cashed in for prizes
What is a token economy?
This type of memory stores our knowledge of language
What is Semantic Memory?
This type of memory occurs rarely in children.
What is Eidetic Memory?
A free flow of thoughts with no particular plan
What is Non-Direct or Divergent thinking?
A process in which reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses from old ones.
What is shaping?
A person who has numerous experiences in which actions have no effect
What is learned helplessness?
This type of memory is constantly in your conscious
Short-Term Memory
Recalling of information presented first or last on a list
What is the Primacy-Recency Effect?
A sudden realization of a solution to a problem
What is Insight
When a person's old response becomes attached to a new stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
A specific number of correct responses is required before reinforcement.
What is Fixed-ratio?
This is when your memory starts to erase.
What is Decay?
Memory strategy used by attaching meaning or using a heuristic
What is elaborate rehearsal?
Image, symbol, concept, prototype, and rule
What is units of thought?