Let's Learn About Learning
This type of learning is often characterized as 'learning by consequence' and governs off of the law of effect.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Whether visual, semantic, or acoustic, this is the process by which your brain converts short term/working memory into your long term memory.
What is encoding?
What is the oral stage?
This relatively new stage of human development spans from about 18 to a person's mid to late twenties.
What is emerging adulthood?
The Mona Lisa was painted by this 15th century Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
These innate behaviors are higher order thought processes that are triggered by a broader range of events, such as the changing of seasons or maturation.
What are instincts?
These types of memories are unique to your lived experiences and would only be known by your or someone who knows you very well.
What are episodic memories?
This unicellular organism is formed when the sperm and egg merge together during conception.
What is a zygote?
This type of 'Memory Sin' occurs when an individual is not able to recall something due to a lapse in focus or attention.
What is absentmindedness?
*Do know Schacter's 7 Sins of Memory, as there may be a MC or even a SA question*
The states of matter are solid, liquid, gas, and this lesser known fourth state, which is actually the most abundant form in the known universe.
What is plasma?
This famous Watson experiment involving a small child illustrated that emotions, and specifically fear, can be conditioned.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
This type of memory loss prevents a person from remembering details of their life prior to their accident and/or trauma.
What is Retrograde amnesia?
This prominent developmental psychologist proposed 8 stages of human development, each with their own 'core conflict' that must be settled during each period of development.
Who is Erikson (Erickson's Psychosocial Stages of Development)?
*Definitely know who he is, as well as Piaget and Freud as well*
This type of memory is an incredibly clear recollection of an important event, such as one's memory of 9/11 or the COVID-19 Pandemic.
What is flashbulb memory?
This country consumes the most chocolate per capita.
What is Switzerland?
This reinforcement schedule produces the highest and most consistent response rate.
What is variable ratio?
*Definitely know these schedules of reinforcement, as there is a MC question on them*
Human memory is particularly susceptible to this phenomena, which pertains to interference from external sources that may lead to the creation of false memories.
What is Suggestibility?
Piaget proposed the concept of schemata (mental models) that impact these two important mental processes.
What are Assimilation and Accommodation?
This term often observed in toddlers and teenagers pertains to difficulties in the ability of a person to take the perspective of another person.
What is egocentricism?
Hannah, racecar, kayak, "step on no pets", "yo, banana boy", and "was it a cat I saw?", are all examples of this english term used to describe something spelled the same forwards as it is backwards.
What is a palindrome?
This form of both reinforcement and punishment involves learning based on the outcome of the behavior of a model, rather than the individual experiencing the consequence themselves.
Ex. Seeing your brother get his mouth washed out with soap for swearing, so you choose not to swear.
What is vicarious (reinforcement/punishment)?
A major strategy referenced in the chapter for improving memory retrieval is to use this principle, which involves making the material personally meaningful to you, writing notes in your own words, and connecting new information to things you already know.
What is the Self-Reference Effect?
This style of parenting involves a high emphasis on obedience and conformity and often leads to higher levels of anxiety and social withdrawal in children raised by these types of parents.
What is Authoritarian?
*Definitely know the four parenting styles and be able to recognize examples of each*
These two important brain structures operate the emotional epicenter of the brain that help to store and access important information about our sense of self.
What are the amygdala and hippocampus?
The acronym NASA stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?