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27 Cards in this Set
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Habituation |
learning where an individual stops responding to a stimulus that is no longer biologically relevant. |
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Sensitization |
opposite of habituation. increase of a behavior from a repeated presentation of a stimulus. |
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Latent learning |
Learning takes place, but there is no demonstration of that knowledge until a reward or incentive takes place. e.g learning driving routes by being a passenger |
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Dual process theory |
theory explaining the diff levels of information processing in individuals
1st: fast, automatic, unconscious. 2nd: slow, deliberate, voluntary, conscious. |
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Perceptual learning |
Attention weighting: perception is weighting to tasks by focusing on details and specifics Imprinting: special receptors developed for specific stimuli Differentiation: stimuli that were once undistinguishable become psychologically separated Unitization: tasks that used to require detection of several components are combined by finding a single construct |
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Exposure learning |
People develop a preference for things bc they are used to them (media) |
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Comparator Models and Differentiation Theory |
New details added to stimulus representations |
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Spatial Learning |
Learning about the features of the environment by exploring |
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Priming |
Prior exposure the the stimulus even without awareness of the exposure, affects response. |
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Principles of Classical Conditioning |
Extinction Discrimination Generalization Spontaneous Recovery |
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Operant Conditioning |
Reinforcement and Punishers |
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Principles of Operant Conditioning |
Extinction Stimulus generalization Stimulus discrimination |
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Behavioral Economics |
study of the way organisms allocate their time between various behaviors |
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Premack principle |
an opportunity to perform a highly frequent behavior can reinforce performance of a less frequent behavior |
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Basal Ganglia |
stimulus-response associations may be stored |
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Generalization gradient |
A curve on a graph showing how changes in stimuli correspond to changes in response. Called gradient bc animal's responses change gradually depending on similarity b/w stimulus and original test stimulus. |
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Sensory preconditioning |
An original pairing of two items will lead someone to associate the one item with the other even when separated. E.g. Tequila and lime |
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Discrete component representations |
similarity among features is so small that there is negligent transfer of response from one to the other |
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Distributed representations |
Incorporate shared elements and allow for creation of psych models in which concepts are represented as patterns of activity over populations of many nodes |
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Discrete component network |
Giving no response to yellow-orange light (even tho similar to yellow) bc fear of stomach ache from orange fruit |
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Episodic memory |
recalling various details, including spatial and temporal location and can describe these details to others even if youve never tried putting this to words before (I remember) |
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Semantic memory |
Memory for facts and general information about the world (I know) |
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Cortex |
stores semantic memories |
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hippocampal region |
important for new episodic and semantic memory storage |
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frontal cortex |
important for remembering source information |
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diencephalon |
mediates comm between the hippocampus and cortex during info storage and consolidation |
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Types of amnesia |
Anterograde- temp disruption of mem loss or "after" Functional-resulting from psych causes & not physical Infantile- forgetting infancy Retrograde- lack of mem relating to events before traumatic event Source- cant remember where knowledge was acquired
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