Psychology Exam 3

When you learn to associate things in your environment

See someone else doing it and then you can

Decreased responding due to repeated stimulation

Increased responding due to repeated stimulation

ability to generalize things (like handwriting) and discriminate between others

knees gan to go up without tap

dogs began to drool without food

uses stimuli to learn

using reinforcement to learn

Behavior changes depending on effect of action

examined learning by cat in box and fish outside

something pleasant or satisfying

something not pleasant or satisfying

seeks to increase behavior

seeks to decrease behavior

learn by observing someone else learning

stimulant and response techniques

criticized black box because rat already knew how to get through maze

criticized black box because gorilla put sticks together to make longer stick without reinforcement

encoding storage retrieval forgetting

visual memory

auditory memory

memory of senses (very short term)

rearranging incoming information into meaningful or familiar patterns

saying it over and over

compare it to things you already know

memories that can be consciously recalled

memory related to a specific event

memories about how to do things (ie. ride a bike)

memory about the world that has no reference to experience (ie. my knowledge about presidents)

special mental tricks to help you remember

you choose a familiar pathway and form visual images of what you want to remember along the pathway

you form visual images connecting what you want to remember to items with cues

forget because it's been too long since used information or information is not important

intentionally forget (ie. Repressed memory) (not universally accepted)

New information interferes with the recall of old information

Old information interferes with the recall of new information

When missing a state related to the memory, you may be unable to retrieve it (Ie. If you are drunk you may not remember things you learned u

measuring how much faster one learns material that has been previously learned

was able to manipulate people's memories and could even implant one

had hippocampus removed and couldn't form long-term memories

The distinguishing pattern of psychological characteristics

a lasting

a way of trying to describe a person's behavior

narrowed down into 16 categories with spectrum

Accepted Cattell's narrow- down premise, but said could be narrowed down into 3 categories [extroversion, neuroticism (anxious/moody), psych

openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism -- spells O.C.E.A.N.

did not like mathematical formulas -- instead 3 types

at the root of a persons personality (most people don't really have any)

true in most situations

more narrow attitudes

if you make something broad enough, it will apply to everyone (or most people)