Concepts and People in Learning
Pavlov demonstrated this type of learning
classical conditioning
Dr. Wegner is doing an in-depth study of three people with right frontal lobe injuries. This is a ____ study.
Case
When you just start to drift off to sleep, this is called ___ sleep
Stage 1 (N1)
Neutral stimulus (NS)
This class of drug causes your heart rate to speed up and makes you more alert.
Stimulant
This person studied cats in a puzzle box
Thorndike
Janna is looking at the relationship between people's trait levels of narcissism and their self-esteem. This is a ____ study.
Correlational
When you are dreaming and your body is paralyzed, even though your brain is very active, you are in ___ sleep.
REM (Rapid Eye Movement) or (R)
If you learn to associate the ringing of the doorbell with the mailman bringing you toys as a child, the doorbell comes to serve as a ___.
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
In the ___ theory of hypnosis, you aren't really hypnotized, but you behave in a way that hypnotized people are expected to behave.
Sociocognitive
B.F. Skinner is most know for his contributions to ___ conditioning.
operant
The ____ is a group of people at a university who judge whether a study is ethical and if it should be conducted
IRB (Institutional Review Board)
This stage is characterized by deep sleep where you are hard to wake up
Stage 3 or Slow-Wave Sleep (N3)
Rami gets bucked off a pony a child and from then on he fears ponies, but not horses, mules, or donkeys. This is an example of ____.
Stimulus discrimination (or just discrimination)
In the ____ theory of hypnosis, you are in a trancelike state in which conscious awareness is separated from other aspects of consciousness
dissociation
Albert Bandura is most famous for his Bobo doll study of ____ learning
observational
Dr. Smith is studying the effect of flashcards on learning biology terms. The number of biology terms remembered is the ____ variable
Dependent
This stage is characterized by K-complexes and sleep spindles
Stage 2 (N2)
When Kami is young she associates a certain K-Pop music with happy memories of dancing with her sister. As she gets older, she finds that all K-Pop music makes her happy. This is called ____.
Stimulus Generalization (or just generalization)
When you watch your sister get punished for swearing at home and as a result, you are less likely to swear at home, this is called ____ conditioning
vicarious
The ___ states that behavior that results in a satisfying state of affairs will increase and that that results in an annoying state of affairs will decrease
law of effect
If each person who walks into the room has an equal chance to be in the experimental condition or the control condition, this is called ____.
Random assignment
When you are wide awake, your brain shows these waves
Beta
Of the following stimuli, which would be the easiest to condition a fear of? Bananas, Grasshoppers, Spiders, Computers, Hot Glue Gun
Spiders because of biological preparedness
In the video we watched about ____ there were two researchers who switched places and 75% of the participants didn't notice it was a different person.
Inattentional Blindness