Learning, Memory, Thinking and Language 2009-2010

Chapters In Textbook:

• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
  

Assignments:

• Psych Associates
• Optional Activities
  

Topic Summaries (if available):

• Classical Conditioning & Pavlov’s Experiment
• Updating Skinner’s Understanding
• Pavlov’s Legacy
• Operant Conditioning & Skinner’s Experiments
• Punishment
• Updating Pavlov’s Understanding
• Skinner’s Legacy
• Learning by Observation & Bandura’s Experiments
• Applications of Observational Learning
• The Phenomenon of Memory & Memory Loss and Memory Feats
• Information Processing
• Encoding: Getting Information In & How We Encode
• What We Encode
• Storage: Retaining Information & Sensory Memory
• Short-Term Memory
• Long-Term Memory
• Storing Memories in the Brain
• Retrieval: Getting Information Out & Retrieval Cues
• Forgetting & Encoding Failure
• Storage Decay
• Retrieval Failure
• Memory Construction & Misinformation and Imagination Effects
• Source Amnesia
• Discerning True and False Memories
• Children’s Eyewitness Recall
• Repressed or Constructed Memories of Abuse?
• Improving Memory
• Thinking & Concepts
• Solving Problems
• Making Decisions and Forming Judgments
• Risks – Do We Fear the Right Things?
• Belief Bias
• Simulating Thinking with Artificial Intelligence
• Language & Language Structure
• Language Development
• Thinking and Language & Language Influences Thinking
• Thinking without Language
• Animal Thinking and Language & Do Animals Think? (not available)
  
• Do Animals Exhibit Language?

Key Terms:

• learning
  
• associative learning
  
• classical conditioning
  
• behaviorism
  
• unconditioned response (UCR)
  
• unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
  
• conditioned response (CR)
  
• conditioned stimulus (CS)
  
• acquisition
  
• extinction
  
• spontaneous recovery
  
• generalization
  
• discrimination
  
• operant conditioning
  
• respondent behavior
  
• operant behavior
  
• law of effect
  
• operant chamber (Skinner box)
  
• shaping
  
• reinforcer
  
• primary reinforcer
  
• conditioned reinforcer
  
• continuous reinforcement
  
• partial (intermittent) reinforcement
  
• fixed-ratio schedule
  
• variable-ratio schedule
  
• fixed-interval schedule
  
• variable-interval schedule
  
• punishment
  
• cognitive map
  
• latent learning
  
• overjustification effect
  
• intrinsic motivation
  
• extrinsic motivation
  
• observational learning
  
• modeling
  
• mirror neurons
  
• prosocial behavior
  
• memory
  
• flashbulb memory
  
• encoding
  
• storage
  
• retrieval
  
• sensory memory
  
• short-term memory
  
• long-term memory
  
• automatic processing
  
• effortful processing
  
• rehearsal
  
• spacing effect
  
• serial position effect
  
• visual encoding
  
• acoustic encoding
  
• semantic encoding
  
• imagery
  
• mnemonics
  
• chunking
  
• iconic memory
  
• echoic memory
  
• long-term potentiation
  
• amnesia
  
• implicit memory
  
• explicit memory
  
• hippocampus
  
• recall
  
• recognition
  
• relearning
  
• priming
  
• déjà vu
  
• mood-contingent memory
  
• proactive interference
  
• retroactive interference
  
• repression
  
• misinformation effect
  
• source amnesia
  
• cognition
  
• concept
  
• prototype
  
• algorithm
  
• heuristic
  
• insight
  
• confirmation bias
  
• fixation
  
• mental set
  
• functional fixedness
  
• representative heuristic
  
• availability heuristic
  
• overconfidence
  
• framing
  
• belief bias
  
• belief perseverance
  
• artificial intelligence
  
• computer neural networks
  
• language
  
• phoneme
  
• morpheme
  
• grammar
  
• semantics
  
• syntax
  
• babbling stage
  
• one-word stage
  
• two-word stage
  
• telegraphic speech
  
• linguistic determination
  

Quizlet(s): Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

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