PSY 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Reinforcement, Raymond Cattell

• School: Miami University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Spangler Brooke

Document Summary

Reflexes motor or neural reaction to specific stimulus in the environment, more simple than instincts, involve particular body parts and systems, involve the more primitive centers of the. Instincts innate behaviors triggered by a broader range of events such as aging or change of seasons, involve movement of the organism as a whole (ex. migration), and involve higher level brain centers. Learning relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience. Associative learning occurs when make connections between stimuli or events that occur together in an environment, central to all three basic learning processes. Acquisition when an organism learns to connect neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus, growing the association between the stimuli. Extinction decrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus, weakening the association between the stimuli (ring bell, but only you eat, not the dog)