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Consolidation   process of stabilizing and strengthening neural (synaptic) connections  
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Synaptogenesis   Formation of new synapses  
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Neurogenesis   Formation of new neurons  
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Differentiation   Specialization of neurons for a particular function  
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Synaptic Pruning   Elimination of synapses that aren't used  
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Neuroplasticity   Ability to reorganize throughout life due to new situations or environmental changes  
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Principles   Identify factors that influence learning and describe the specific effects that these factors have  
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Theories   Provide explanations about underlying mechanisms involved in learning  
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Behaviorism aims to take the ___ out of the study of behavior   subjectivity  
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The same ____ can be explained by different _____   principle; theories  
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All behavior is developed through ____ (behaviorist perspective)   conditioning  
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Equipotentiality   Animals and humans learn the same way  
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Tabula rasa is assoicated with what theory?   Behaviorism  
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Generalization   When learned behaviors are produced in response to too many stimuli (Little Albert)  
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Discrimination   When a learner figures out that only certain stimuli should trigger certain responses  
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Extinction   When you cease to exhibit a response  
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Schedules of reinforcement   Different strategies for how often to reinforce a behavior  
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Continuous Reinforcement   Giving reward every time a behavior is preformed  
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Intermittent Reinforcement   reinforcement given in intervals/ratios  
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Behaviorism main theorist   Pavlov  
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Conditioning   Forming associations between stimuli and response  
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Operant Conditioning   Concerned with the effects of CONSEQUENCES on behaviors- only voluntary responses  
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Social Cognitive Theory   Focuses on COGNITIVE PROCESSES (change in behavior doesn't have to occur for learning to be present)  
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Triadic Reciprocality   Relationship between person, behavior, environment  
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Enactive Learning   Learning through experience  
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Vicarious Learning   Learning through observation  
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Latent Learning   When a behavior that is learned does not appear until a later time  
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Obserational learning   Behavior happens after modeling that would have 0% chance of occuring without modeling  
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Operant Conditioning: reinforcement and punishment   Consequence influences learning of the behavior it follows  
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Social cognitive theory: reinforcement   The expectation of a possible future consequence influences the learning of a behavior it precedes  
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Cognitive modeling   Modeling that involves explanation beyond just demonstration: explaining in depth how to do something and why  
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Constructivism   Individuals construct what they know and understand  
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Individual Constructivism theoriest   Piaget  
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Piaget proposed universal, qualitatively distinct _____   stages  
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Schemes   cubby hole  
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Assmiliation   When we encounter information in our environment that makes sense to us, fits in cubby hole  
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Accomodation   When we encounter information in our environment that doesn't make sense, we are forced to alter a cubby hole or build a new one  
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____ is one of the most important cognitive tools   Language  
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Internalization   talking out loud ----> thinking silently  
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Private speech   internalization of language during activity  
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Appropriation   transforming incoming information and making it your own  
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Zone of Proximal Development   Distance between actual developmental level and potential developmental level  
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Intersubjectivity   Shared understanding or a goal  
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Conceptual Change   learning that involves changing an existing conception  
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Concepts   Sets of objects, symbols, or events that share common characteristics and/or critical attributes  
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