Associative Learning
In Pavlov's first studies of classical conditioning using dogs, the unconditioned response to food was this.
What is salivating (or drooling)?
Money is this type of reinforcer.
What is secondary?
John Watson trained this infant to fear even Santa Clause using classical conditioning.
Who is Little Albert?
This is the duration of short term memory.
What is 20-30 seconds?
You are thinking about your 16th birthday party, which you are retrieving from this memory system.
What is episodic memory?
Skinner trained pigeons to play ping pong using this method.
What is shaping (or successive approximations)?
Bandura showed that kids model violent behavior that they see adults perform in this experiment.
What is the Bobo doll experiment?
Thorndike proposed this "law" that was a precursor to operant conditioning based on his work putting cats in puzzle boxes.
What is the Law of Effect?
This is the capacity of long term memory.
What is limitless?
We update our memories to be consistent with our current beliefs and attitudes because of this.
What is memory bias?
If you trained me to sneeze in class every time you played a chime on your phone, this would be the conditioned stimulus.
What is the phone chime?
You see that your sibling gets extra allowance for every A on their report card, so you also work to get good grades, reflecting this.
What is vicarious learning?
If you were repeating the names of the objects again and again in the Memory Review Experiment, you were using this kind of rehearsal.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Because of this effect, the words in the middle of a list are forgotten.
What is the serial position effect?
Persistence is a symptom of this disorder.
What is PTSD?
You train your dog to salivate every time you show a teal circle by pairing a teal circle with food. At first, he salivates to teal ovals too, but when he learns that no food comes with ovals, reflecting this.
What is stimulus discrimination?
Each time you open your overfull cabinet, you hear the sound of dishes clinking together and a dish of yours falls out and breaks. Now, every time you hear dishes clink, you have to go check the arrangement of dishes in your cabinet, reflecting this kind of learning.
What is sensitization?
If you grouped a series of digits together into specific years, you are using this strategy.
What is chunking?
Our memories change over time because of this process that occurs each time we take them out of storage.
What is reconsolidation?
If you always come to class high, you should take the exam high because of this.
What is state-dependent memory?
You take away your child's iPad to stop them from talking back, which is a form of this.
What is negative punishment?
Conditioned taste aversion is more common with these kinds of foods.
What are new (or novel) foods?
According to this theory, elaborative rehearsal is better than maintenance rehearsal.
What is the levels of processing theory?
HM had this kind of amnesia, so he could not form new long term memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
You have just moved to a new apartment. You need to fill out forms with your new address, but all that you can think of is your old address because of this.
What is proactive interference?