Learning
Who conducted the famous bobo doll experiment?
Albert Bandura
In this kind of conditioning, trained responses are reflexes or emotions.
classical conditioning
The 3 types of encoding are...
semantic, acoustic, visual
Processes of thought such as attending, knowing, remembering, and making decisions
Cognition
Psychologist who said we are born with an innate ability to learn languages
Noam Chomsky
Who pioneered classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
In this kind of conditioning, responses are voluntary behaviors
operant conditioning
sensory, working/short-term, long-term
In this type of thinking, a thinker uses just the available facts to find the single best solution
convergent thinking
The communication of ideas through symbols that are arranged according to rules of grammar
Language
Who pioneered operant conditioning?
BF Skinner
In operant conditioning, this involves adding a stimulus after a voluntary behavior in order to make that behavior more likely to occur again
positive reinforcement
This type of rehearsal is the process of repeating information to keep it in short-term memory; it will keep information fresh, but is not an efficient way of transferring information to long-term memory
maintenance rehearsal
Which type of heuristic describes the tendency to estimate the likelihood of an event or create a judgment based on how closely they match a prototype or stereotype
representative heuristic
The basic sounds of a language
Phonemes
What is learning that remains hidden until it is needed?
Latent learning
In operant conditioning, this involves removing a stimulus after a voluntary behavior in order to make that behavior less likely to occur again
negative punishment
Memories of events and personal experiences (like your first kiss or your 15th birthday party) are a type of explicit memory called...
episodic memories
An obstacle to problem solving in which we get stuck on one way of looking at a problem
functional fixedness
The basic units of meaning in a language
Morphemes
What theory describes the various learning preferences people have?
Multiple Intelligence Theory (Howard Gardner)
In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus is called...
conditioned response
Amnesia that causes people to be unable to make new memories
Anterograde amnesia
A mental image or “best example” of a concept (think Golden Retriever for the concept of “dog” or bald eagle for the concept of “bird”)
prototype
The 3 stages of language development are...
(1) crying, cooing and babbling (2) words (3) grammar