Conditioning and Learning Final

Psychology 311 with Tomie at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

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By: Kritika Chopra
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The Principles of Learning and Behavior: Active Learning Edition (Sixth Edition)
Created: 2011-04-25
Size: 35 flashcards
Views: 734

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acquisition

the initial stage of learning

amnesia

loss of memory

cognitive ethology

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

comparitive cognition

theoretical constructs and models used to explain aspects of behavior that cannot be readily characterized in terms of simple SR or reflex mechanisms. these mechanisms do not presume consciousness, awareness or intentionality.

delayed matching to sample procedure

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

directed forgetting

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

episodic memory

memory for a specific event or episode that includes info about what occurred and when and where it took place as contrasted with memories for heneral facts or ways of doing things

forgetting

failure to remember previously acquired information

memory

a term used to characterize instances in which an organisms current behavior is determined by some aspect of its previous experience

memory consolidation

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

proactive interference

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

procedural memory

memory for learned behavior and cognitive skills that are performed automatically, without the requirement of conscious control, often reflecting knowledge about invariant relationships in the environment, such as classical conditioning or instrumental conditioning

prospection/ prospective coding

memory for an expected future event or response

re consolidation

process of stabilizing a reactivated memory.

reference memory

long term retention of background information necessary for successful use of incoming and recently acquired information

rehearsal

maintaining info in an active state, available to influence behavior and/or processing of other information

retention interval

time between acquisition of information and a rest of memory for that information

retrieval

recovery on info from a memory store

retrieval cues

stimuli related to an experience that facilitates the recollection of other info related to the experiences

retrieval failure

a deficit in recovering info

retroactive interference

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

retrograde amnesia

gradient of memory loss going back in tune from the occurrence of major injury or physiological disturbance

retrospective coding/ retrospection

memory for a previously experienced event or response

stimulus coding

how a stimulus is represented in memory

trace decay hypothesis

theoretical idea that exposure to a stimulus produces changes in the nervous system that gradually and automatically decrease after the stimulus has been terminated

trials unique procedure

matching to sample procedure in which different sample and comparison stimuli are used on each trial

working memory

temporary retention of info that is needed for successful responding on the task at hand but not on the subsequent similar tasks.

adjunctive behaviors

systematic activities or responses that occur when reinforcers are delivered at fix intervals

duration estimation

discrimination procedure in which the discriminative stimulus is the duration of an event

model rival technique

observational learning procedure in which the participant observes a trainer teaching a student and tries to compete with that student for the trainers attention

paired associate learning

learning of associations between successive pairs of an ordered list of stimuli

peak procedure

a discrete trial variation of a fixed interval schedule used to study timing in animals

response chain

a consecutively ordered series of responses in which each response produces the cue for the next response in sequence

scalar invariance

property of the temporal control of behavior that emphasizes that participants respond to time intervals in terms of their relative or proportional durations rather than their absolute durations

serial representation learning

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

About this deck

By: Kritika Chopra
Textbook:

The Principles of Learning and Behavior: Active Learning Edition (Sixth Edition)
Created: 2011-04-25
Size: 35 flashcards
Views: 734

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