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A relatively permanent change in behavior or in behavioral potentiality that results from experience and cannot be attributed to temporary body states such as those induced by illness, fatigue, or drugs.
What is Learning?
100
Used "puzzle boxes" to study learning in animals.
Who is Edward Thorndike?
100
Stimuli which elicits a natural and automatic response
What is an Unconditioned Stimulus?
100
Piaget's stage which occurs from age 2 to around 7 years of age.
What is the Preoperational Stage?
100
The contention that short-term memory is converted into long-term memory
What is Consolidation Memory?
200
Thoughts about behavior that are are either supported or refuted
What are Theories?
200
Would be considered the "Father of Operant Conditioning".
Who is BF Skinner?
200
A “neutral” event that does not elicit the response of interest on its own.
What is the Conditioned Stimulus?
200
When a principle learned in one problem-solving situation is applied to the solution of another problem.
What is Transposition?
200
States that "Disruption of learning and retention goes up as the amount of cortical destruction goes up, regardless of the location of the destruction."
What is the Principle of Mass Action?
300
In an experiment, these are conditions manipulated or controlled by the experimenter that may explain changes in the dependent variable
What are Independent Variables?
300
Any neutral stimulus paired with a primary reinforcer (e.g., food or water) which takes on reinforcing properties of its own.
What is a Secondary Reinforcer?
300
Phenomenon where after extinction, the CS can be presented and the CR will temporarily reappear
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
300
Sometimes referred to as the law of good figure or the law of simplicity. This law holds that objects in the environment are seen in a way that makes them appear as simple as possible.
What is The Law of Pragnanz?
300
States that “When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite a cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A’s efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased”
What is Hebb's Neuropsychological Postulate?
400
These are "lenses through which we view the world"
What are Paradigms
400
Experimentation and therapy which stems from the idea that individuals can control their own heart rate, blood pressure, and skin temperature.
What is Biofeedback?
400
Phenomenon that occurs when animals are exposed to unpredictable and unavoidable electric shocks as an unconditioned stimulus, and they “give up.”
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
According to Piaget, this is the potential to act in a certain way.
What is a Schema (or Schemata)?
400
The tendency for innate behavior patterns gradually to displace learned behavior.
What is Instinctual Drift?
500
Known as the Father of Experimental Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
500
Theory which stated, "If a response is followed by a satisfying state of affairs, the strength of the connection is increased. If a response is followed by an annoying state of affairs, the strength of the connection is decreased."
What is the Law of Effect?
500
States that "Whatever we did last under a given set of circumstances will be what we will tend to do again if those circumstances are reencountered."
What is The Recency Principle?
500
Self-Exonerating Mechanism which says that reprehensible behavior becomes a means to a higher purpose and therefore is justifiable.
What is Moral Justification?
500
Defined as a physiological or anatomical structure, a biological process, or a behavior pattern that, historically, contributed to the ability to survive and reproduce.
What are Adaptations?