PSY 205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fetus, Impression Formation, Anterograde Amnesia
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Learning: reward pathway, self stimulation experiment, james olds. A change in behavior as a result of experience that endures, it is reversible: learning: non-heritable, non-maturational, any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience, reward and punishment: 4 yrs old: sister"s daughter- cough, likes money: case of lisa: 14 yrs old, hands +knees, father ignored her/kicked her: aperiodic: higher than continuous, schedules of reinforcement: fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval, learning by insight: Edward tolman: latent learning, mental maps, kohler"s experiment: classical conditioning: Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, experimental neurosis, emergence of involuntary responses as a result of learning: fear learning: stimulus, unusual pattern of stimulation, little albert. Instinctive drift: innate tendencies interfere w/ conditioning: preparedness: may acquire certain fear responses easier than others, taste aversion: acquired after single experience even if illness occurs later, albert bandura: found that conditioning may occur vicariously through a observation.