Learning Basics
First father of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
First step in classical conditioning.
What is acquisition?
The persistence of learning over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
The most common type of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's?
Founder of observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
The process of acquiring, through experience, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
When reinforcement is given after every correct response.
What is continuous reinforcement?
Grouping small bits of information into larger units.
What is chunking?
The inability to form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Type of memory with unlimited capacity.
What is long-term memory?
Learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.
What is operant conditioning?
Responding to similar stimuli after being conditioned to a specific stimuli.
What is generalization?
Effect in which we better remember the first and last items in a list.
What is serial position effect?
When new memories interfere with remembering old information.
What is retroactive interference?
Structures that stimulate imitative behavior.
What are mirror neurons?
Type of learning which occurs by watching someone perform a specific behavior.
What is observational learning?
Mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
What is cognitive map?
The progressive deterioration and impairment of memory.
What is dementia?
The number of items we can hold in short-term memory.
What is 7 (+2/-2)?
Process of repetition that allows info to remain in working memory for a longer period of time.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
First founder of operant conditioning.
Who is Thorndike?
Reinforcement that is provided after a fixed number of correct responses.
What is a fixed-ratio schedule?
An increase in a synapse's firing potential.
What is Long-Term Potentiation?
Brain structure essential in the formation of new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Amount of time sensory memory holds auditory info.
What are 2 seconds?