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Thordike was known for his work with?
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Puzzle Boxes
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The tendancy to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called...
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Mental Set
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The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is?
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Operant Conditioning
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Short term memory is probably coded?
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Verbally
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What would you predict about Little Albert based on the principle of spontaneous recovery?
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Even after his fear of a rat was extinguished, the fear could come back.
*In Spontaneous recovery the conditioned response can briefly reappear when the original CS returns, although the response is usually weak and short-lived. |
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When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called?
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Retroactive Interference.
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Psychological tests that yield relatively consistent results are said to be?
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Reliable.
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Researchers have found what about insight?
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That humans and apes are capable of insight.
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What are example's of a primary reinforcer?
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Anything relating to food, drink, shelter, touch, and other biologically based needs.
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What are example's of a secondary reinforcer?
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Money, gold stars, pat on the back, awards, etc.
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PET scans have demonstrated that when you are creating a visual image...
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The areas associated with stored knowledge send information to the visual cortex.
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Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences divides intelligence into how many independent abilities?
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Nine independent abilities.
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Encoding specificity refers to?
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Using physical surroundings or emotions as retrieval cues for specific memories.
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According to Craik and Lockhart, we are most likely to remember information that we process at what level?
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Deeper level.
*According to the levels-of-processing model, deeper processing results in better memory, whereas shallower processing results in poorer memory. |
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The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction is called?
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Spontaneous recovery.
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