Exam 3 Review

What theory explained behavior in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings

What type of memory is full of general knowledge and facts?

What interval schedule best describes the below?

True or False? Learning describes a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.

Before conditioning, the bell ringing was a...

the stages of memory processes

What interval schedule best describes the below?

When a CR is gradually extinguished through repeated presentation of the CS w/out the UCS

Complete the sentence about operant behavior: Any behavior produced by an organism that has some impact on the _____

The contraption that Edward Thorndike Built is called a?

The nature of a response by the environment is different for different people

What did B.F. Skinner design to illustrate the theory of operant conditioning?

Previously neutral stimulus that evokes a response after many pairings with the UCS (bell, metronome)

•Process of maintaining information over time

Positive punishment occurs when you add something to decrease behavior

What best describes: Drew comes home too late after his high school party. He loses driving privileges for two weeks.

Memory that occurs when a past experience influences behavior, but we are not aware of the influence.

A decreased responding to things such as: fans, trains, A/C, etc is called?

What best describes: Yelling at a child for bad behavior.

An event/object that is not inherently reinforcing, but instead has reinforcing value through classical conditioning

The fading out of a response after reinforcement ceases

Lil Albert was exposed to animals every time he heard a really loud crash. What type of conditioning did he undergo?

What best describes the following: Learn to associate two stimuli and be able to anticipate events

When Jalaiah Harmon created the renegade dance it was so cool that others learned it too. This can be explain by?

Unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events

A dog went through classical conditioning and now salivates to the sound of bell. What's going on here?

Conscious recollection of events we have experienced or facts we have learned

Negative reinforcement occurs when you add something to increase behavior

Stage of memory that registers information about the environment and holds it for a very brief period of time

The Law of effect relates to what psychological approach?

What best describes: Collin doesn't throw a football well. All of his footballs are taken away.

What best describes the following scenario? Put on my jacket to leave apartment, my dog rushes towards the door

The forgetting curve, discovered by Ebbinghaus, shows that information is forgotten ______________.

•The act of intentionally bringing explicit information to awareness

Memories we hold for days, weeks, or even years

Positive reinforcement occurs when you add something to increase behavior

Retrieving your memories can weaken them

Process whereby info tends to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval

What interval schedule best describes the below?

Money is a primary reinforcer

Negative punishment occurs when you add something to decrease behavior

Chunking is a way to improve what type of memory?

Edward Thorndike...

Salivation/blinking your eyes to a puff of air are examples of unconditioned responses or responses that occur naturally

Superstitious behaviors are not learned

Social Behaviors, using a chopstick, deadlifts, etc., can all be learned through what?

The increase in whining detailed below when you stop buying candy is an example of what?

What type of stimulus would something that naturally produces a response be called? (examples: dog food, steak)

What best describes: Assigning students who forget to turn in their assignment extra work.

Operant conditioning and classical conditioning are forms of observational learning?

A stimulus that does not elicit a response on its own (bell, metronome)

Lil' A was afraid of all white/fuzzy things though he was only conditioned to be afraid of rats.What's up w/ that?

Storage for non-sensory information for that lasts more than few seconds but less than a minute

Process of categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items

What type of memory would the memory of a vocabulary be called?

Learning in which the consequences of an organism’s behavior determine if the behavior will be repeated in the future

We remember encoded information that is relevant to things such as sources of food/water and the location of predators.

When you learned your native language, you were not formally taught. Yet you know 15,000 + words. What is this called?

What describes the phenomenon detailed in the passage below?

What is the most effective way of modifying a behavior?

What memory type might explain why depressed folks have trouble recalling happy memories?

What reinforcement schedule has high steady rates of responding because one doesn't know when reinforcement will come?

When you remember a phone number you often remember 4794463777 in the 479 446 3777 format. What is this called?

A response to the unconditioned stimulus that requires no previous experience

After Conditioning, the bell ringing was a...

Process of transforming perceptions, thoughts, feelings into memory

An INCREASE in responding to stimuli is?

The theory that rats have a built in readiness to have fast associations between smell and

What best describes: Megan makes great grades, so her mother buys her ice cream to encourage her.

What interval schedule best describes the below?

What reinforcement schedule has high steady rates of responding because one doesn't know when reinforcement will come?

What theory explains: If a behavior is followed by a pleasurable outcome, the behavior is repeated

What type of memory would the memory of your wedding or birthday party be?

The active maintenance of information in short-term storage

Students tested in the same classroom they learned in did better on tests than students tested in a different classroom

When a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired w/ a stimulus that naturally produces a response

Food is a primary reinforcer

What theory explains the notion that we learn behaviors from others?

Father of classical conditioning.

Process of relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in memory

•The process of bringing to mind information previously encoded and stored

What best describes: Remove clocking in/out when employees prove they accurately report their time worked. 

Continuous reinforcement occurs when each behavior you want to encourage is reinforced.

The process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures

Discrimination is a learned ability to distinguish between stimuli

Shaping is when the final behavior is the result of several smaller reinforced steps