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35 Cards in this Set
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What is learning?
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The process by which changes in behavior arise as a result of experience interacting with the world.
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The study of learning is a science, what is one of the keys?
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Hypothesis are falsifiable - we can test whether predictions are correct and, if not, we change the theories. In other words, science in fundamentally empirical knowledge.
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Nativism is?
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The idea that knowledge in inborn. Genetically programmed.
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Empiricism is?
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THe idea that knowledge is acquired. Environment shapes you.
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Concept of the Association?
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Discussed in some length by Aristotle; Contiguity, Frequency, Similarity.
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Charles Darwin discovered what?
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Natural Selection
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Charles Wallace did what?
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Discovered the explanation for how evolution occurs.
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George Miller?
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Cognitive Psychologist. 7 +/-2.
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Edward Thorndike
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Cognitive turning into Behavioralist, Law of Effect, Cats.
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William Gall
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Phrenology
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Law of Effect
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Edward Thorndike, Consequence of your response matters.
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Started the association, Nonsense Syllable, Forgetting Curve, Primacy/Regency Effect, Relearning is much faster.
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Primacy Effect
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Remembering things at the beginning of a list
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Regency Effect
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Remembering things at the end of a list
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Behaviorist
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Watson started in 1913, Skinner followed. Psychology should study the BEHAVIOR only. There is no "mind", because it cannot be measured, Psychology should focus on the objective not the subjective.
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Cognitive
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Experimentally experimented on the mind - George Miller (7)
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Galon
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Gladitor Surgen;
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Piaget
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Development of Learning Stages in children.
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Flornes
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Farm Animals, Destroyed parts of brains and discovered MIdbrain and localization of function.
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Hull
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Behaviorist, Physics, Newton of Psychology, 1930's
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Cerebellum
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Motor SKills, Hindbrain
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Medulla
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Breathing, Life Sustaining Functions
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Frontal Lobe
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Motor Control
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Parietal Lobe
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Somatosensory
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Occipital
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Vision
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Temporal
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Hearing
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What NT is associated with HABITUATION?
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Glutamate
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What NY is associated with SENSITIZATION?
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Serotonin
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Sensitization uses what additional neurons?
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Inter-Neurons.
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Habituation
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DECREASE in the strength or occurrence of a behavior after repeated exposer to a stimuli. WEAK & REPEATED
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Sensitization
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Repeated exposer to a stimulus causes and increase in the level of responding. Increase in probability & intensity of a response. LOUD & INFREQUENT.
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Latent Learning
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Learning without reinforcement. TOLMAN - Rat Maze Study
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Priming
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Prior experience to a stimulus, increasing recognition. Biased.
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Landmark Agnosia
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Lost the ability to recognize landmarks
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Prospagnosia
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Inability to recognize faces
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