Memory
What’s the difference between Episodic Memory and Semantic Memory?
Semantic- Facts and general knowledge
Episodic memory
Personally experienced events
What is Learning?
Process of acquiring new information or behaviors through experience
Name one of Sternberg’s three intelligences
Analytical Intelligence / Creative Intelligence / Practical Intelligence
What is homeostasis?
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state, the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry
What is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
Conditioned Response
Give an example of the mnemonic processing strategy
It’s good if the player states an acronym, peg words, or a fun sentence/rhyming
What is punishment, what does it do?
An event that decreases the behavior that it follows
What is one’s ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate your emotions
One's emotional intelligence
What is one example of a physiological need?
Food, Water
What is a mental representation of the layout of one’s environment?
Cognitive map
What brain structure is associated with emotional memory?
Frontal Lobes
The Amygdala
The Cerebellum
Basal Ganglia
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What is the type of conditioning that is strengthened if followed by reinforcement or diminished if followed by punishment?
Operant Conditioning
What is an intelligence (IQ) test?
A range of tests assessing an individual's mental ability and comparing them with the mental abilities of others
True or false; An incentive can be positive or negative
True
What is context-dependent memory?
Recall improves when the contexts present at encoding and at retrieval are the same
Deja vu
What is the Serial Position Effect?
A human’s tendency to best recall the last items on a list; ALSO, it’s when someone can better remember the first items on a list, particularly after a delay
What is the learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.?
Latent Learning
Name 3 types of intelligence according to the Multiple Intelligence Theory
Musical Intelligence / Logical- Mathematical Intelligence / Interpersonal Intelligence / Intrapersonal Intelligence / Visual Intelligence / Naturalistic Intelligence / Verbal Intelligence/ Bodily- Kinesthetic Intelligence
Name 3 out of the 4 classic motivation theories
instincts and evolutionary theory, Drive reduction theory, arousal theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs
______is the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
Yerkes-Dodson law
What’s the difference between Anterograde Amnesia and Retrograde Amnesia?
Anterograde Amnesia makes it hard for the brain to form new memories, while Retrograde amnesia makes it hard to recall memories from your past
What are the parts of associative learning and what do they mean?
1. Classical Conditioning- 2 uncontrolled events that occur together(paired) become associated
2. Operant Conditioning- a behavior and a consequence become associated
Name the psychologist who created the well-known intelligence scale known as the IQ distribution
David Wechsler
What is reduction theory?
The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
Who viewed psychology as an objective science. Hint: He popularized behaviorism
John Watson