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Psych -Learning
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Learning | Changing in behavior or knowledge that is a result of experience |
| Classical conditioning | Learn to associate events or stimulate that repeatedly happened together |
| Unconditional stimulus | Something that naturally produces a response |
| Unconditional response | Natural reaction to an unconditional stimulus |
| Condition stimulus | Previously neutral stimulus that produces a response after being paired with a unconditional stimulus |
| Conditioned response | Response to a conditioned stimulus |
| Behaviorism | Primarily the result of conditioned responses |
| Operant conditioning | Learning from consequences, learn to associate events and behavior and its consequences |
| Thorndyke’s law of effect | Responses followed by positive outcomes are repeated those followed by negative outcomes are not repeated |
| Reinforcement | Strengthen behavior it follows |
| Punishment | Weakens behavior it follows |
| Positive | Adding something |
| Negative | Removing something |
| Observational learning | Learn learned by watching others |
| Pandora‘s Bobo doll study | The impact of an adult behavior on the behavior of children who saw them |
| Memory | Ability to obtain store and retrieve information from the past |
| Sensory memory | Brief storage of information for a few seconds or less |
| Short-term memory | Memory for what you are currently attending to or thinking about it last about 20 seconds and it’s your working memory |
| Primacy effect | More likely to remember words from the beginning |
| Recency effect | More likely to remember words from the end of a list |
| Semantic distinctness | Something that is unique or different that is more likely to stand out |
| Encoding | Input of information into the memory system |
| Long-term memory | Type of storage that hold information for hours days weeks or years |
| Elaborative rehearsal | Technique in what you think about the meaning of the new information in its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory |
| Chunking | Organizing information into manageable, bits, or chunks, examples are phone number numbers or Social Security numbers |
| Spacing effect | Encoding is more effective when spread out overtime |
| Mcemonics | Acronyms |
| Retrieval | Process of getting information out of memory |
| Recall | Accessing information without cues |
| Recognition | Identifying learned info after encouraging it again |
| Testing effect | The act of retrieval itself makes the retrieve memory much more likely to be retrieved again, strengthening memory |
| Forgetting | Loss of info from memory |
| Encoding failure | Loss of info from memory |
| Decay | Memories fade over time |
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