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100

Memory for "knowing how" in contrast to "knowing that" 

What is procedural memory? 

100

Memory of personal experiences 

What is episodic memory?

100

Contains the sensory register, working memory (short-term memory), and long-term memory while executive processing decides what is worth mental energy and executes the learning plan 

What is the information-processing theory?

100

When people subject stimuli to different levels of mental processing and retain only the information that was most thoroughly processed 

What is the levels-of-processing theory? 

200

When the combination of neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus incurs a similar response as unconditioned stimulus

What is a conditioned stimulus? 

200

The tendency to learn the first items presented 

What is the primacy effect?

200

The tendency to learn the last elements presented

What is the recency effect? 

200
Facts and generalized information; problem-solving skills and learning strategies

What is semantic memory? 

300

The cause of the automatic response that occurs without prior training or conditioning 

What is an unconditioned stimulus?

300

When a reinforcer is given after a fixed number of behaviors 

What is a fixed ratio schedule?

300

When reinforcement is available at some times, but not at others and we do not know when a behavior will be reinforced 

What is a variable interval schedule?

300

When the behavior is weakened and ultimately disappears

What is extinction?

400

Any consequences that weaken behavior

What is a punisher?

400

Any consequence that strengthens a behavior

What is a reinforcer?

400

A device containing a simple apparatus for studying the behavior of animals, usually rats or pigeons

What is a Skinner Box?

400

The automatic response that occurs without training or experience 

What is an unconditioned response?

500

Regulates basic emoitons like fear, anger, and hunger

What is the amygdala?

500

Wrinkled and deeply furrowed, for the highest mental functions; 80% of the brain's weight

What is the cerebral cortex?

500

Controls the transfer of information from working memory to long-term memory

What is the hippocampus?

500

Spaces between the dendrites 

What is a synapse?