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It is our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is Consciousness?
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Learning where certain events occur together.
What is Associative learning?
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this is what LTP stands for
What is Long-term potentiation
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beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
What is babbling stage
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Vivid dreams occur in this sleep stage and your eyes move rapidly.
What is REM Sleep stage?
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A stimulus that naturally and automatically occurs. What learning theory is this stimulus a part of?
What is an unconditioned stimulus? It is part of Classical conditioning.
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German philosopher, researched verbal memory; learned that the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning
Who is Ebbinghaus
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behaviorist; believed that we can explain language development with familiar learning principles, such as association, imitation, and reinforcement
Who is B.F. Skinner
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When a person randomly falls asleep during the day.
What is Narcolepsy?
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The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.
What is Modeling
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memories of skills, preferences and dispositions. These memories are evidently processed, not by the hippocampus, but by a more primitive part of the brain, the cerebellum. They are also called procedural or nondeclarative memories.
What is implicit memories
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estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness_) we presume such events are common
What is availability heuristic
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A suggestion made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized.
What are Posthypnotic suggestions?
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Skinner used this in his studies with a rat. it was a box with a bar or a key where an animal had to manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer.
What is an Operant Chanmber? or a.k.a Skinner Box?
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the tendency of eyewitnesses to an event to incorporate misleading information about the event into their memories. At the heart of many false memories, source amnesia refers to misattributing an event to the wrong source.
What is misinformation effect
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judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information
What is representativeness heuristic
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Distorts perceptions and evokes sensory images in the absence of sensory input. What is one example?
What are hallucinogens? Marijuana, LSD
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He had the idea that human emotions ad behavior, though biologically influenced, are mainly a bundle of conditioned responses. Who's work or what learning theory did he use as a basis? What was his famous experiment?
Who is John Watson? Ivan Pavlov, or Classical conditioning Little Albert.
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Russian journalist who could repeat up to 70 digits or words and remember lists 15 years in the past.
Who is Shreshevskii
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linguist; believed that children learn the language of their environment, but believed that they acquire untaught words and grammar too quickly to be related to learning principles; universal grammar, language acquisition device
Who is Noam Chomsky