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Learning
Memory
Thinking and Language
bonus
100
Example of this learning type: A UCF professor uses cat pictures in her PPTs, and her students say nice things about them. She now uses cat pictures in all her class lectures
operant conditioning
100
This is a “sin” of distortion: Ross is working on a group project, and one of his teammates comes up with a great idea. Later Ross truly believes he came up with the idea himself.
misattribution
100
This is a problem solving term. Examples include: rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, guesstimate, stereotyping, profiling, or common sense.
heuristic
100
3 items to bring on test day
skinny brown scantron, pencil, and ID
200
Example of this learning type: You once got food poisoning from Chipotle. Now even thinking about a burrito makes you nauseous.
classical conditioning
200
This is a “sin” of forgetting. Carol’s work schedule changed recently. She keeps forgetting her new schedule, and can’t get the old one out of her head.
Proactive blocking
200
This is an obstacle to problem solving. Chandler is addicted to cigarettes and doesn’t plan to quit. He doesn’t find antismoking arguments convincing. His grandfather is a seemingly healthy smoker, and this keeps Chandler from worrying about his habit.
confirmation bias
300
Example of this reinforcement schedule: Every morning at 7:15, your neighbor Mr. Heckles walks out of his apartment to get his newspaper.
fixed interval
300
This is a context effect. Monica finds it tough to recall good memories after a long day at work puts her in a bad mood.
mood congruent memory
300
This is a mental tendency. Mike strongly believes that the moon landing was staged. No matter how much information he hears about NASA or how much his friends disagree, he won’t change his mind.
Belief perseverance
400
Example of this reinforcement schedule: You always invite your friend Susan to come along when you go downtown. She usually can’t go, but sometimes she surprises you and says yes.
variable ratio
400
This is an encoding strategy. It’s easier for Phoebe to learn an address when she breaks it down the to components: building info, street info, and city info.
Chunking
400
This is an idea about language acquisition. This theory suggests that learning language is different than learning other skills, and we have innate mechanism that help us learn and use language.
Chomsky - biological influences OR poverty of stimulus
500
Example of a conditioning related phenomenon: After years of having an alarm go off every weekday at 7:00, you automatically wake up at 7:00, even during weekends and vacations. You decide to stop using an alarm, because you don’t need it. However, a few weeks later, you start to oversleep and wake up at unpredictable times.
extinction
500
This is an element of working memory. In your mind, you can still “hear” the last few words someone said to you.
phonological loop
500
This is an idea about thought and language. An example would be when a multilingual person gets different results on personality tests when they take the test in different languages.
Whorf’s linguistic relativity