Key Concepts in Learning and Memory Theories

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The Field--$100 • This theory assumes different species are related through a common evolutionary history. • answer

The Field--$200 • This philosophical school of thought led learning researchers to investigate how we acquire knowledge through environmental experience. • answer

The Field--$300 • This researcher used associationism to help explain why his lab animals began to form connections between previously unrelated concepts or events. • answer

The Field--$400 • In general, ______ refers to acquiring knowledge or behavior and ______ refers to retaining and recalling that knowledge. • answer

The Field--$500 • This term is often used to describe the difference between actual changes in behavior and potential changes in behavior, given the appropriate setting. • answer

CC Basics--$100 • When conditioning trials begin, this produces no response (i.e., it’s neutral). • answer

CC Basics--$200 • The reflexive or automatic action elicited by some naturally occurring stimulus is called __________. • answer

CC Basics--$300 • CC training trials pair these two components, with hopes of conditioning a response. • answer

CC Basics--$400 • The components and correct temporal sequence of a cc test trial if conditioning has indeed occurred. • answer

CC Basics--$500 • The type of CC situation in which there is a positive correlation between CS and US and the CS comes to elicit a response that is very similar to the response elicited by the US. • answer

Important Variables--$100 • The name of the CS-US arrangement that involves total CS-US contiguity, but results in very little, if any, conditioning. • answer

Important Variables--$200 • After a substantial number of CS-US pairings have been presented, increases in conditioned responding will level off or reach _______. • answer

Important Variables--$300 • CS-US intervals of less than _____ and greater than ____ produce very little, if any, responding. • answer

Important Variables--$400 • With regard to CS and US intensity, strength is more important for an effective ____ and salience is more important for an effective ___. • answer

Important Variables--$500 • Garcia & Koelling (1966) demonstrated that ____ is a relevant CS for shock and ___ is a relevant CS for nausea. • answer

Theories--$100 • This theory stresses that a close temporal relationship between CS and US is important for conditioning to occur. • answer

Theories--$200 • This particular type of learning/conditioning occurs, even when the assumptions of contiguity are not met. • answer

Theories--$300 • This theory stresses that the US must be surprising or unexpected in order for conditioning to occur. • answer

Theories--$400 • This phenomenon was demonstrated by Kamin (1969) and causes problems for both contiguity and contingency theory. • answer

Theories--$500 • The two primary views on what is learned during classical conditioning? • answer

Grab Bag--$100 • The general name for a graph which relates the number of training trials to the probability of a CR occurring on a test trial. • answer

Grab Bag--$200 • Conditioning situation in which two or more CSs occur together before the US, with the possibility of each being conditioned to varying degrees. • answer

Grab Bag--$300 • In the CER paradigm, conditioning is measured by calculating this. • answer

Grab Bag--$400 • Name in order the CS and US in the Watson & Rayner (1920) study. • answer

Grab Bag--$500 • The 3 phases of systematic desensitization. • answer

The Field--$100 • A: What is evolution? • Back to board

The Field--$200 • A: What is empiricism? • Back to board

The Field--$300 • A: Who was Ivan Pavlov? • Back to board

The Field--$400 • A: What are learning and memory? (in that order) • Back to board

The Field--$500 • A: What is the learning vs. performance distinction? • Back to board

CC Basics--$100 • A: What is the conditioned stimulus (CS)? • Back to board

CC Basics--$200 • A: What is the unconditioned response (UR)? • Back to board

CC Basics--$300 • A: What are the CS and US? • Back to board

CC Basics--$400 • A: What is CS followed by CR? • Back to board

CC Basics--$500 • A: What is classical excitatory conditioning? • Back to board

Important Variables--$100 • A: What is simultaneous conditioning? • Back to board

Important Variables--$200 • A: What is asymptote? • Back to board

Important Variables--$300 • A: What is less than 200 ms and greater than 2 s? • Back to board

Important Variables--$400 • A: What is US and CS? • (in that order) • Back to board

Important Variables--$500 • A: What are lights & sounds and novel taste? • (in that order) • Back to board

Theories--$100 • A: What is contiguity? • Back to board

Theories--$200 • A: What is taste aversion? • Back to board

Theories--$300 • A: What is the Rescorla-Wagner Theory? • Back to board

Theories--$400 • A: What is blocking? • Back to board

Theories--$500 • A: What are stimulus-stimulus (CS-US) and stimulus-response (CS-UR) learning? • Back to board

Grab Bag--$100 • A: What is a learning (or acquisition) curve? • Back to board

Grab Bag--$200 • A: What is compound conditioning? • Back to board

Grab Bag--$300 • A: What is a suppression ratio? • Back to board

Key Concepts in Learning and Memory Theories