Theories of Learnin Test
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| A. learning that occurs a little bit at a time rather than all at once.B. the tendency for the behavior of some organisms, after prolonged conditioning, to revert to instinctual patterns of behavior.C. the variable that is measured in an experiment, usually some kind of behavior (like trials of criterion).D. the study of the nature of knowledgeE. a term often used to describe Thorndike’s explanation of learning because he assumed learning involved the strengthening of neural bonds between stimulating conditions and the responses to them.F. the raw psychological experience that was the object of introspective analysis; experience that was not contaminated by interpretation of any kind.G. the philosophical belief that a mental attribute is inherited and therefore is independent of experience.H. he believed that a person’s strong and weak faculties could be detected by analyzing the bumps and depressions on the person’s skull (phrenology).I. the philosophical belief that the relationships among ideas are explained by the laws of association.J. the strength of a connection is determined by how often the connection is used. The law of exercise has two components: the law of use and the law of disuse.K. learning that occurs very rapidly, is remembered for a considerable length of time, and transfers readily to situations related to the one in which the insightful learning took place.L. trying different responses in a problem-solving situation until a response that solves the problem is found. aka selecting and connectingM. the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology, Washburn wrote about consciousness in nonhuman animals.N. refers to the fact that if one response does not solve the problem, the organism continues to try other responses until it hits on one that is effective in solving the problem; a prerequisite to trial-and-error learning.O. the utilization of learning principles in the treatment of behavior disorders.P. the philosophical belief that the mind must become actively involved before knowledge can be attained.Q. the belief that physical reality is as we perceive it.R. those activities of scientists as they are guided by a particular paradigm.S. the intense study of a single experimental subject.T. the theory that the likelihood of something learned in one situation being applied in a different situation is determined by the number of common elements in the two situations. As the number of common elements goes up, the amount of transfer between the |
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