Sensation & Perception
Learning
Reinforcement & Punishment
Memory
Remembering Strategies
100

Occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor.

Sensation.

100

The name of the person who conducted significant experiments about conditioning.

Pavlov.

100

The difference between a reinforcement and a punishment.

A reinforcement strengthens behavior, while a punishment weakens it.

100

When you choose to pay attention to something to remember it later, you are practicing this.

Selective attention.

100

Memories that have been distorted by misinformation are this.

False memories.

200

The weakest amount of stimulus someone can detect about half the time.

Absolute threshold.

200

The theory about people learning through imitating the actions and behaviors of others.

Social learning theory.

200

Something good that is taken away.

Negative punishment.

200

This untreatable disease is well-known for causing memory loss.

Alzheimer's.

200

The two types of rehearsal one can practice in order to remember something.

Maintenance and Elaborative.

300

You are ready to see what you want to see.

Perceptual set.

300

A conditioned response means this.

A learned response to stimulus.

300

Behavior is reinforced every time it occurs.

Continuous reinforcement.

300

These types of memories hold information for up to a second.

Iconic memories.

300

This causes the loss of memories or the blocking of them.

Interference.

400

The difference threshold means this.

The amount of difference someone can detect between two stimuli at the same time.

400

Three types of learning.

Non-associative, associative, observational.

400

A method involving positive and/or negative to change or reinforce behaviors.

Operant conditioning.

400

The three stages of the memory process.

Encoding, storage, and retrieval.

400

Memorizing information by using this association technique.

Mnemonic Devices.

500

All seven senses.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, kinesthesis, and vestibular sense.

500

You have a headache, so you shut off the light to help the pain. This is an example of this type of conditioning.

Escape conditioning.

500

A child is given a sticker for completing his work. This situation is an example of this.

Positive reinforcement.

500

The downside of prospective memory is this.

It reduces the amount of what you can attend to in short-term memory and working storage.

500

Distributed practice (spreading out learning over time) works due to this.

Spacing effect.