Learning and Behavior
Memory
Thinking and Intelligence
Misc.
People
100

Also known as respondent conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, and associative learning. Involves the training of a biologically inherited behavior that is triggered by a specific evolutionarily important environmental event to occur in the presence of a new stimulus.

What is classical conditioning?

100

A memory store containing whatever currently inhabits the conscious mind.

What is short term memory?

100

Ability to control and organize bodily movements, such as in sports. (Type of intelligence)

What is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence?

100

Focuses on the relation between the behavior and the environmental changes that the behavior produces.

What is operant conditioning?

100

Russian physiologist who worked with dogs and their salivary responses.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

200

The ABCs of behavior

What are antecedents, behaviors, and consequences?

200

A form of memory that contains both storage and processing mechanisms.

What is working memory?

200

The smallest unit of sound in a language

What are phonemes?

200

Memories that can't be expressed in words but are memories for how to do a certain skill.

What are procedural memories?

200

Was the first and last person to have hippocampi removed via surgery. Did not have new episodic or new semantic memories after surgery.

Who is H.M.?

300

The closer together in time and space the presentation of the US and the NS, the stronger the conditioned response

What is contiguity?

300

A function relating elapsed time to the amount of information that can be recalled; determined by Ebbinghaus's nonsense syllable experiment.

What is the forgetting curve?

300

The facts, information, and details that we know.

Crystallized intelligence

300

Environmental events that influence out behavior only after we have learned that these events are valuable.

What are secondary reinforcers?

300

Conducted a car crash experiment and a shopping mall to test the misinformation effect.

Who is Beth Loftus?

400
Adding an undesirable stimulus to stop or decrease a behavior. I.e. breaking a rule and being yelled at.

What is positive punishment?

400

A memory phenomenon in which people falsely recall information presented after an event as having been part of the event.

What is the misinformation effect?

400

A way of solving problems that relies on inexact rules, so it is error prone but faster than algorithms.

What is heuristic?
400

How we are able to process information and develop solutions to problems

What is fluid intelligence?

400

Opponent to the internal focus of psychology, thought the three goals of psychology should be:

1. Focus on the role of environmental events in relation to behavior change

2. Strive to predict behavior and environmental influences

3. The study of behavior should be the final objective of research

Who is John Watson?

500

A response is rewarded after an allotted period of time.

What is a fixed-interval schedule?
500

A type of declarative memory; memories of specific events

What are episodic memories?

500

Shift in psychology from strict behaviorism to investigating ways the brain creates the mind.

What is the cognitive revolution?

500

Measure of how far scores typically deviate from the mean

What is standard deviation?

500

American psychologist who was interested in trial-and-error learning. Placed cats inside of puzzle boxes that required them to perform various tasks to escape.

Who is Edward Thorndike?