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What is learning? How does is reflect your environment/surroundings?
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Change in behavior, how you function and associate between them
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Who is Little Albert and what was the famous experiment he was involved with?
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The baby, the white rat experiment
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Define punishment. Define reinforcement. What is the difference between negative and positive punishment, and negative and positive reinforcement?
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Punishment positive:decreases negative decreases reinforcement positive: increases negative: increases
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Learned helplessness
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Getting harmed over and over so they stop trying
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What was the Bobo doll experiment and what was its outcome?
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The adult was punching and cussing the doll, then the kids did the same thing: observational learning
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What is memory? what are the three basic processes of memory?
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A mental process: encoding :writing, repeating, putting to music. storage: something lasting making an impression. retrieval- recovering info
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What is 7+- 2 mean? what is chunking
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Range of short term memory, putting info into groups ex: phone number
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What is retrieval
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Retrieval: process of accessing stored info
retrieval cue: clue or prompt
free recall: whats your bday
recognition: multiple choice
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What are some methods of encoding information into long term memory?
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Elaborative rehearsal- relate the info to something you know
repeating- tie to empotion chunking- make it meaningful
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What is intelligence? how is it measured?
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The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively w/ the environment,IQ test
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What does IQ predict and how is it measured?
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Predicts your knowledge not job oppurtunities, 10 yr old times 10
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What is the normal curve?
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70% a few below and above
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What is reliability? What is valid
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Predicts your intelligence: not reliable; amount of freckles is how smart you are
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What is motivation? What are the three basic characteristics of motivation
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Something that acts upon you internal and external
activation-gets you going persistance-puts your mind to it intensity-motivated behavior
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Be familiar with the five theories instinct:someone tickles you and you laugh
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Drive: need to eat incentive: if you are good you get candy arousal:bored, need to do something humanistic: reach high potential
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