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Published 07/30/2024 Acquisition/modification of knowledge due to experience
Published 07/30/2024 Can learning be unlearned?
Published 07/30/2024 Basic Forms of learning {{c1::Association}} - habitual behaviors due to sequencing {{c1::Cognitive Learning}} - acquisition of mental infor…
Published 07/30/2024 elicits a natural and automatic response (Food)
Published 07/30/2024 naturally triggered by an unconditioned stimulus (Salivation)
Published 07/30/2024 does not elicit a conditioned response (sound)
Published 07/30/2024 During Conditioning {{c1::US}} + {{c1::NS}} = {{c1::UR}}
Published 07/30/2024 Neutral Stimulus which elicits a conditioned response through association
Published 07/30/2024 triggered by a conditioned stimulus
Published 07/30/2024 linking the NS to the US so that the NS starts triggering the CS
Published 07/30/2024 a CS is paired with a new NS creating a 2nd weaker CS
Published 07/30/2024 diminishing of a CR when an US does not follow a CS
Published 07/30/2024 reappearance of a weakened or extinct CR after a pause
Published 07/30/2024 similar CS elicit a CR
Published 07/30/2024 adaptive distinguishing a CS against irrelevant stimuli
Published 07/30/2024 behavior that operates on the environment and makes consequences
Published 07/30/2024 experimental box with food dispenser and target activity
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcing successive close behaviors to reach the target behavior
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Reinforcement}} - increases frequency of a behavior {{c1::+ reinforcement}} - adding something good {{c1::- reinforcement}} -…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Intrinsic}} - desire to perform for oneself {{c1::Extrinsic}} - desire to perform for rewards or to avoid punishment
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement for every desired response
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement only part of the time with slower acquisition but less prone to extinction
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement after a number of desired responses
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement after an unpredictable number of desired responses
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement of a desired response after a duration of time
Published 07/30/2024 reinforcement of a desired response after unpredictable durations of time
Published 07/30/2024 Behaviorism (John B. Watson) {{c1::Psychology should be an objective science}} {{c2::Psychology should study behaviors without reference to…
Published 07/30/2024 Socially constructed inborn ability to learn/understand/adapt with new/difficult situation and apply knowledge to new situations
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Charles Spearman}} (General Intelligence) We have {{c1::1}} general intelligence {{c1::G factor}} - common skill set that underlies a…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::LL Thurstone}} (Specific Intelligence) We have 7 clusters of primary mental abilities {{c1::Word fluency}} {{c1::Verbal comprehension}} {…
Published 07/30/2024 2 Factor Theory G - {{c1::General performance}} S - {{c2::Specific task performance}}
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Howard Gardner}} (Multiple Intelligences) We have 8 - > 9 modalities rather than 1 general intelligence {{c1::Linguistic}} {{c1::Logic…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Robert Sternberg}} (3 areas to success) Intelligence is classified into 3 areas that predict real-world success {{c2::Practical}} Intelli…
Published 07/30/2024 capacity to perceive and understand the emotions of others and manage and use the emotions of oneself and adjust Self-awareness Delayed gratification
Published 07/30/2024 Know-how in managing social situations Develops from experiences with others and successes and failures in social settings Common sense Str…
Published 07/30/2024 According to Theodore Simon & Alfred Binet, do all children follow the same intellectual development but at different paces?
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Binet-Simon Scale -> Standford Binet Scale}} - Used to diagnose intellectual deficiencies in children {{c1::Knowledge}} {{c1::Qua…
Published 07/30/2024 a level of performance associated to a chronological age
Published 07/30/2024 IQ
Published 07/30/2024 Which matters more, nature or nurture
Published 07/30/2024 According to Jean Piaget, is cognitive development the same for every child?
Published 07/30/2024 Sensorimotor (0-2 y/o)
Published 07/30/2024 Preoperational (2-7 y/o)
Published 07/30/2024 Concrete Operational (7-11 y/o)
Published 07/30/2024 Formal Operational (>11 y/o)
Published 07/30/2024 Who introduced Classical Conditioning?
Published 07/30/2024 Which involves reinforcement of the desired stimulus only after a number of responses?
Published 07/30/2024 Which involves removing an aversive stimulus to increase the frequency of a response?
Published 07/30/2024 What theory differentiates human intelligenceinto specific ‘modalities’, rather than seeingintelligence as dominated bya single general ability?
Published 07/30/2024 Egocentrism is a primary characteristic of which stage of cognitive development?
Published 07/30/2024 This is the ability of a child to understand that two volumes of liquid are equal even though they are placed in differently-shaped glasses.
Published 07/30/2024 Extinction, in the context of classical conditioning, is the diminishing of which kind of response?
Published 07/30/2024 A cognitive function which refers to the persistence of learning over time through: {{c1::Encoding}} - getting info into the memory system by ex…
Published 07/30/2024 Remembered info can be
Published 07/30/2024 Is memory a kind of learning?
Published 07/30/2024 pioneered memory research
Published 07/30/2024 Viewing memory as products of interconnected neural networks
Published 07/30/2024 the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system that acts as memory buffer to give time to process incoming sensation …
Published 07/30/2024 activated memory that holds a few (7) items briefly before it is stored or forgotten
Published 07/30/2024 Associates new and old info to deal with current information
Published 07/30/2024 Working memory - Associates new and old info to deal with current information Components {{c1::Phonological loop}} (Language) {{c2::Vis…
Published 07/30/2024 relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences is stored
Published 07/30/2024 Takes into account automatic processing and working memory
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Automatic processing}} - unconscious encoding of incidental information (implicit memories) {{c1::Space}}, {{c1::time}}, {{c1::frequency}…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Effortful processing}} - encoding that requires attention and conscious effort (explicit memories) {{c1::Spacing effect}} - learning is …
Published 07/30/2024 Levels of processing Visual {{c1::Imagery}} - heart of every memory Verbal {{c2::Shallow processing}} - encoding on a basic level, …
Published 07/30/2024 how long must info stay in short-term memory before it is neurally stored into long-term memory (hippocampus)
Published 07/30/2024 Sensory memory {{c1::Iconic memory (photographic)}} - momentary photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths o…
Published 07/30/2024 prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing due to synaptic changes
Published 07/30/2024 Important NT in Long-term potentiation
Published 07/30/2024 inducing seizures through administration of electrical current - does not affect long term memory but it affects short term memory (anterograde amnesi…
Published 07/30/2024 Involves the memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare
Published 07/30/2024 Retention independent of conscious recollection
Published 07/30/2024 Where are explicit memories processed
Published 07/30/2024 Where are implicit memories processed
Published 07/30/2024 Explicit (Declarative) - Involves the memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare {{c1::Semantic}} - facts/…
Published 07/30/2024 Retrieval Measures of Retention {{c1::Recall}} - retrieving info not in conscious awareness {{c1::Recognition}} - identify items previou…
Published 07/30/2024 Lapses in memory Causes {{c1::Encoding failure}} Much of what we sense, we don’t notice and what we fail to encode, we will never remember {{…
Published 07/30/2024 Memory sins Forgetting {{c1::Absent-mindedness}} {{c1::Transience}} {{c1::Blocking}} Distortion {{c2::Misattribution}} {{c2::Source amnesia}} -&…
Published 07/30/2024 repression that occurs between 5-6 years old
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Anterograde}} amnesia - cannot make new memories {{c2::Retrograde}} amnesia - cannot retrieve old memories
Published 07/30/2024 Spoken, written, signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate
Published 07/30/2024 Does language development start early?
Published 07/30/2024 Is the methos for language skill development universal?
Published 07/30/2024 Do children reproduce words they are repetitively exposed to?
Published 07/30/2024 Syntactic developments {{c1::Empiricist}} approach (Nurture) {{c2::Nativist}} approach (Nature)
Published 07/30/2024 smallest distinctive sound unit
Published 07/30/2024 smallest unit that carries meaning
Published 07/30/2024 system of rules that enables us to communicate and understand
Published 07/30/2024 rules for deriving meaning from sounds
Published 07/30/2024 rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::BF Skinner}} (Empiricist) {{c1::Tabula Rasa}} Learning is through... {{c1::Association}} of sights with the sounds of words {{c1::Imit…
Published 07/30/2024 Language development milestones {{c1::4 months}} Babbles speech sounds {{c1::10 months}} Babbles household language {{c1::1 year}} 1 word stage …
Published 07/30/2024 Language development {{c1::Receptive language}} - comprehending speech {{c2::Productive/Expressive language}} - speech making
Published 07/30/2024 left hemispheric damage resulting in impairment of language
Published 07/30/2024 Broca's and Wernicke's areas are affected
Published 07/30/2024 Brain Activity Speaking {{c1::Motor}} cortex {{c1::Broca's}} area - area in left frontal love that controls language expression though speec…
Published 07/30/2024 Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about
Published 07/30/2024 Do we think in images?
Published 07/30/2024 Can thinking and language change each other?
Published 07/30/2024 Response of an organism involving... Physiological arousal Expressive behavior Conscious experience
Published 07/30/2024 Arousal come before emotions
Published 07/30/2024 Arousal and emotion occur simultaneously
Published 07/30/2024 Arousal + Label = Emotion
Published 07/30/2024 Cognitive appraisal defines emotion
Published 07/30/2024 Some responses happen without cognitive appraisal
Published 07/30/2024 Can different emotions share common bio signatures?
Published 07/30/2024 Can 1 brain region serve as the seat of different emotions?
Published 07/30/2024 seat of negative social emotions
Published 07/30/2024 Are emotions universal?
Published 07/30/2024 communicate emotions but also amplify and regulate it
Published 07/30/2024 facial muscle states trigger corresponding feelings
Published 07/30/2024 tendency of behavior to influence our own and others' thoughts, feelings, and actions
Published 07/30/2024 response to someone's misdeeds
Published 07/30/2024 releasing aggressive energy relieved aggressive urges
Published 07/30/2024 tendency to be helpful when in a good mood
Published 07/30/2024 tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
Published 07/30/2024 perception that one is worse/better relative to those with whom one compares oneself
Published 07/30/2024 satisfaction with the past, happiness with the present, and optimism about the future
Published 07/30/2024 Personality (Persona - mask) Enduring and different Influenced by {{c1::Actions}} {{c1::Thoughts}} {{c1::Feelings}}
Published 07/30/2024 prejudiced, conformist, rigid, prudish
Published 07/30/2024 stand out, narcissistic, egoistic
Published 07/30/2024 go with the crowd, altruistic
Published 07/30/2024 happier, healthier, responsible
Published 07/30/2024 dependent on the actions of others
Published 07/30/2024 need to make significant accomplishments by mastering skills, some are just arrogant
Published 07/30/2024 more attention to arguments and need for engagement
Published 07/30/2024 motivated by gaining, flexible, adaptable
Published 07/30/2024 more concerned about negatives, conservative
Published 07/30/2024 introspective, can be insecure
Published 07/30/2024 engagement risky behaviors
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Temperament (Nature)}} + {{c2::Life Experiences (Nurture)}} = Personality
Published 07/30/2024 Factors of personality
Published 07/30/2024 9 Behavioral Dimensions (Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas's Longitudinal study) {{c1::Activity level}} - % of time spent in activities {…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::4/10}} of babies have easy temperament (pleasant babies) Highly adaptable, normal sleep and feeding patterns {{c2::1/6}} babies ar…
Published 07/30/2024 psychosocial factors > biological factors Behavior + Nature + Environment = Personality Factors Environments Events Reactions
Published 07/30/2024 - You are who you are because of your choices Predicts and describes behavior but does not answer why it is there Overlooks morality, humor, …
Published 07/30/2024 Trait dimensions {{c1::Openness}} - new experiences, ideas, and people {{c2::Conscientiousness}} Disciplined Dutiful Competent Achievement {…
Published 07/30/2024 Standardized Tests - distributes scores and has specified interpretations Types {{c1::Objective Tests}} - asks people to consciously recall th…
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::Avram Noam Chomsky}} (Nativist) {{c1::Inborn Universal Grammar}} - Humans are predisposed to learn grammar rules of language
Published 07/30/2024 {{c1::State}} - Temporary and in result of a situation {{c1::Trait}} - Enduring and pervasive
Published 07/30/2024 Expressed and experienced motion is influenced by {{c1::Biological}} influences {{c1::Physiological}} influences {{c1::Socio-cultural}} influences
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