Memory
Conditioning & Learning
Sensation & Perception
100

The correct order of the major processes of memory

encoding, storage, and retrieval.

  

100

Experiment on how aggressive behaviors could be acquired through observational learning

Bobo doll experiment

100

Measure of how different the intensity of a stimulus has to be before an individual can tell it has changed.

Just noticeable difference

200

Jim has driven a car with a manual (stick shift) transmission all his life. After switching to an automatic he keeps trying to step on the clutch pedal that is not there.

 proactive interference

200

Effects that decrease behaviors

Punishers

200

oel was annoyed by the strong perfume his coworker was wearing. After some time, Joel didn’t even notice the smell anymore.

Sensory Adaptation

300

Shauntelle comes home from school one day, excited that she’s learned the first five presidents of the United States of America, and shares that list with her mother.  

Semantic

300

A child touches a hot stove and feels pain. The addition of the painful stimulus decreases the likelihood of the child touching the stove again.

Positive Punishment

300

The smallest amount of stimulation needed for detection

Absolute threshold

400

When he was 10 Billy won the city chess championship. Thirty years later, he remembers shaking hands with his opponent and lifting the trophy.  

Episodic memory

400

A teenager loses their phone privileges for breaking curfew. The removal of the phone decreases the likelihood of the teenager breaking curfew again.

Negative Punishment

400

Two senses that respond to chemical stimuli

Olfaction and gustation

500

The hypothesis that a retrieval cue will be effective to the extent that information encoded from that cue overlaps or matches information in the memory trace. 

 encoding specificity

500

A driver fastens their seatbelt to stop the annoying beeping sound in the car. The removal of the unpleasant sound increases the likelihood of the driver wearing the seatbelt in the future.

Negative Reinforcement

500

The physical processing of environmental stimuli by the sense organs

Sensation