Learning
A form of learning done by a person or animal where two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response
classical conditioning
What type of memory are you dependent on whenever you are driving your car (specifically the "feel" for how to drive the car)?
implicit memory (or procedural memory)
A ________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.
A. letter
B. morpheme
C. phoneme
D. syllable
What is morpheme
Name one of the pioneers in the area of intelligence
Who is Spearman, Binet, Lewis, Wechsler, Sternberg, Gardner, Cattell
Attention, Retention, Reproduction and Motivation
Are the four stages of what?
Modeling
Your mom punishes you by adding to your list of chores because you received a failing grade on an exam. What is this an example of?
positive punishment
What at least two major brain structures involved with memory?
frontal lobes; hippocampus; amygdala, cerebellum
Theory that each person responds to the environment in a unique way based on his or her genetic makeup.
What is reaction range?
Name one of the pioneers in the area of learning.
Who is B.F. Skinner, Watson, Bandura, Thorndike
An individual that is unable to establish new memories after a certain point in time is displaying symptoms of _________.
anterograde amnesia
Which term best describes rewarding successive approximations of a target behavior?
what is shaping?
Ben is asked to memorize the words canine, feline, and avian. He remembers the words by associating them with their synonyms: dog, cat, and bird. This is an example of ________ encoding.
A. acoustic
B. semantic
C. sensory
D. visual
What is semantic
Your American history teacher asks the class to recall the date of when the U.S. Constitution was signed. You raise your hand and reply, “September 17, 1787.” What type of intelligence were you relying on?
crystallized intelligence
Is eyewitness testimony reliable? Why or why not?
No. What is unclear vision, surrounding conditions, stress, delay, different race
The ability to recognize and understand emotions within yourself and others refers to _________.
emotional intelligence
Gus receives a paycheck at the end of every week. Which reinforcement schedule is this?
A. fixed interval
B. fixed ratio
C. variable interval
D. variable ratio
What is fixed interval
The ________ effect occurs when your recall of an episodic memory is skewed due to the influence of post-event information.
misinformation
When the only thing you can think about an objects use is what it was originally intended for you are said to be suffering from what?
What is functional fixedness
What are sensory, STM/working memory, LTM?
What is a memory of an emotional salient event that is not any more accurate than a normal memory but people are more confident in it.
What is flashbulb?
You grew up with your elder sibling displaying great fear towards snakes. From watching your sibling, you begin to display a deep-rooted aversion towards snakes as well. This is an example of what?
vicarious conditioning (or observational learning)
What are two of the three ways to retrieve a memory?
In class we talked about heuristics ("rules of thumb"). Can you describe one of them?
Representative, anchoring and adjustment, simulation, availability
You get grounded because you came home after curfew. What kind of reinforcement are you receiving?
Negative punishment
The idea that intelligence test scores are gradually improving over time on a global scale refers to The ______ Effect.
Flynn