Conditioning And Learning Final

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The initial stage of learning.

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Acquisition

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Loss of memory

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Amnesia

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A branch of ethology that assumes that consciousness, awareness, and intentionality can be inferred from the complexity, flexibility, and cleverness of certain forms of behavior.

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Cognitive ethology

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Theoretical constructs and models used to explain aspects of behavior that cannot be readily characterized in terms of simple S-R or reflex mechanisms. These mechanisms do not presume consciousness, awareness, or intentionality.

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Comparative congnition

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A procedure in which participants are reinforced for responding to a test stimulus that is the same as a sample stimulus that was presented some time earlier.

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Delayed-matching-to-sample procedure.

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Forgetting that occurs because of a stimulus (a forget cue) that indicated that working memory will not be tested on that trial. Directed forgetting is an example of the stimulus control of memory.

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Directed forgetting

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Memory for a specific event or episode that includes information about what occurred and when and where it took place, as contrasted with memory for general facts or ways of doing things.

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Episodic memory

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Failure to remember previously acquired information.

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Forgetting

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A term used to characterize instance in which an organism's current behavior is determined by some aspect of its previous experience.

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Memory

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The establishment of a memory in relatively permanent form, or the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory.

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Consolidation

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Disruption of memory caused caused by exposure to stimuli before the event to be remembered.

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Proactive interference

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Memory for learned behavioral and cognitive skills that are performed automatically, without the requirement of conscious control, often reflecting knowledge about invariant relationships in the environment, such as CS-US contiguity (classical conditioning) or response-reinforcer contiguity (instrumental conditioning).

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Procedural memory

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Memory for an expected future event or response

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Prospective coding

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Same as prospective coding

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Prospection

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The process of stabilizing or consolidating a reactivated memory. Presumably the disruption of this reconsolidation leads to modification or for forgetting of the original memory.

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Reconsolidation

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Long-term retention of background information necessary for successful use of incoming and recently acquired information.

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Reference memory

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Maintaining information in an active state, available to influence behavior and/or the processing of other information.

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Rehearsel

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The time between acquisition of information and a test of memory for that information.

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Retention interval

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The recovery of information from a memory store retrieval cues stimuli related to an experience that facilitates the recall of other information related to that experience.

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Retrieval

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A deficit in recovering information from a memory store.

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Retrieval failure

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Disruption of memory caused by exposure to stimuli following the event to be remembered.

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Retroactive interference

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A gradient of memory loss going back in time from the occurrence of a major injury or physiological disturbance. Amnesia is greatest for events that took place closest to the time of injury and less for events experienced earlier.

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Retrograde amnesia

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Sameas retrospective coding.
retrospective coding Memory for a previouslyexperienced event or response.

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Retrospection

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Howa stimulus is represented in memory

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Stimulus coding

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Thetheoretical idea that exposure to a stimulus produces changes in the nervoussystem that gradually and automatically decrease after the stimulus has beenterminated.

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Trace decay hypothesis

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Amatching-to-sample procedure in which different sample and comparison stimuliare used on each trial.

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Trials-unique procedure

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Temporaryretention of information that is needed for successful responding on the taskat hand but not on subsequent (or previous) similar tasks. (Compare withreference memory.)

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Working memory

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Systematicactivities or responses that occur when reinforcers are delivered at fixedintervals.

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Adjunctive behaviors

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Adiscrimination procedure in which the discriminative stimulus is the durationof an event.

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Duration estimation

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Anobservational learning procedure in which the participant observes a trainerteaching a student and tries to compete with that student for the trainer’sattention.

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Model-rival technique

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Learning of associations between successive pairs of an ordered listof stimuli.

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Paired-associate learning

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Adiscrete-trial variation of a fixed interval schedule used to study timing inanimals.

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Peak procedure

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Aconsecutively ordered series of responses in which each response produces thecue for the next response in the sequence.

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Response chain

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Aproperty of the temporal control of behavior that emphasizes that participantsrespond to time intervals in terms of their relative or proportional durationsrather than their absolute durations.

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Scarlar invariance

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The learning of a mental representation of the order of an entire list or series of stimuli.

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Serial representation learning.