This term refers to an object that initially elicits no response from the subject of the conditioning.
What the neutral stimulus?
100
The goal of reinforcement is to influence behavior in this way.
What is increase (frequency)?
100
Defined as the retention of experiences over time, memory involves the three main phases of encoding, storage and ________.
What is retrieval?
100
This type of retrieval refers to being able to identify learned items, such as on a multiple choice exam.
What is recognition?
100
This term refers to our "ideal" or "perfect" example of a concept that we compare other concepts against.
What is a protoype (model)?
200
This term refers to the process of learning to respond to certain stimuli but not to others.
What is discrimination?
200
In negative reinforcement and negative punishment, a stimulus is manipulated in this way.
What is removed?
200
This term is another name for short term memory.
What is working memory?
200
This brain structure is heavily involved in memory formation, memory retrieval, and explicit memory.
What is the hippocampus?
200
This bias describes the tendency to search for and use information that supports our own ideas.
What is the confirmation bias?
300
This term refers to the phenomenon during which a conditioned response (CR) can recur after a time delay, without further conditioning?
What is spontaneous recovery?
300
This term refers to the decrease in the frequency of a behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced.
What is extinction?
300
This set of numbers is the amount "things" that can be temporarily stored in short term memory.
What is 7 +/- 2?
300
This type of memory is likely to be formed during an emotionally significant event and it can often be recalled with great accuracy and vividness.
What is a flashbulb memory?
300
This term refers to using a prior strategy and failing to look at a problem from a fresh perspective.
What is fixation?
400
Little Albert was conditioned by Watson & Rayner to fear a rabbit after repeated pairings of the rabbit with a loud banging sound. This term is the conditioned response (CR) in this scenario.
What is fear?
400
Receiving a biweekly paycheck, feeding a pet fish at 4:00 PM every day, and giving a child their allowance every Friday are all examples of this schedule of reinforcement.
What is fixed interval?
400
This type of long term memory is characterized by the ability to verbally communicate facts and events that happened in the past, and it includes episodic and semantic memory.
What is declarative memory?
400
This type of memory interference is caused by material that was learned earlier disrupting the recall of material that was learned later.
What is proactive interference?
400
This term refers to the general increase in intelligence over generations.
What is the Flynn Effect?
500
This term refers to the amount of time between the presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US).
What is contiguity?
500
This type of learning happens quickly and involves the steps of attention, retention, motor reproduction, and reinforcement.
What is observational learning?
500
According to the Attkin-Shiffrin Theory of Memory, this process must be repeatedly performed to keep information in the short term memory phase.
What is rehearsal?
500
This type of retrieval failure is a memory disorder which renders a person unable to form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
500
This is how intelligence is best defined.
What is adaptability to new tasks?
Textbook: All-purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems, and learn from experience.