Motivation
This law states that performance improves with arousal up to a point, and then decreases
What is Yerkes-Dobson Law Bell Curve
This system of memory holds information collected from your environment for a few seconds.
What is sensory memory?
This type of associative learning that links the behavior with a consequence.
What is operant conditioning?
This is a theory that suggest people are motivated by a drive for rewards and reinforcement
What is incentive theory?
This memory technique involves grouping items into large pieces to make them easier to remember.
What is chunking?
This type of associative learning involves learning that two events occur together: linking two stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
This theory states that people are motivated by intrinsic or extrinsic motivations.
What is self-determination theory?
The process of turning short-term memories into long-term ones.
What is memory consolidation?
Any consequence that strengthens the behavior it follows.
What is reinforcement?
This is a part of Lewin's Conflict Theory that states, a situation involving a choice between two equally desirable but incompatible alternatives.
What is approach-approach?
This type of memory involves recalling facts.
What is semantic memory?
Reinforcing behaviors that are increasingly closer to the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
This is the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need and restore the body to homeostasis, or balance
What is drive-reduction theory?
This happens when a piece of new information interferes with recalling old memories.
What is retroactive interference?
This is the stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response in classical conditioning.
What is the unconditional stimulus (UCS)?