B 4 QUIZ
What is habituation learning?
It is the diminution of a behavioral response with repeated stimulation.
Ex: the first time you hear a loud noise, you might jump, but afterward you stop jumping.
3 forms of Biological Evolution
Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Artificial Selection (e.g., breeding)
Why do people believe some cognitive myths?
Wishful thinking (People like to believe in the paranormal). People want to make money from you.
What is testimony learning?
When someone tells you something.
Eg. how to start a web browser, or that orcas are mammals. It can be read or heard aloud.
What is learning at the sociological level?
A group of people who learn something , knowledge passed down over time.instead of one individual learning something.No one person discovered this, the culture learned it over time.
EX: Food taboos for pregnant and lactating women in Fiji selectively target the most toxic marine species.
TRUE OR FALSE: We Only Use 10% of Our Brains.
FALSE.
We use all of our brains. Evolution would not "waste" energy building vast parts of your brain you don't use.
What are the different kinds of Operant Conditioning?
Sensorimotor Stage (birth-2)
Simple reflex action to symbolic processing.
Progress is seen on 3 fronts:
•Adapting to and exploring the environment
•Understanding objects (Object permanence)
•Using symbols (gesturing)
What is content bias?
When someone imitates something because it is the best idea.
What is auditory Processing?
Processing Sounds - Receptive and expressive
Language - Structural Description
a set of symbols that can be arranged in certain ways
(Dreaming) Interference from the World?
Dreaming you need to urinate
dreaming of teeth falling out (which 70% of people do during sleep) caused by dental irritation
What is Visual Processing?
Interpreting, generating, storing, or retrieving images
The distraction cycle
Boredom drives more frequent task switching
Rapid, unpredictable rewards
You get more easily bored
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The “anchor” is what you compare to when you evaluate.
Anchoring
Restaurants will put a very expensive item on the menu, to make the others look reasonable.