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Psychology of Learning Study Guide Exam 1 Chapter 1 Topics 1. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from some type of experience. The change is not necessarily immediate. -- 2. Behavior is any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured. – Anxiety 3. If your friend smiles after you give her a compliment, you are more likely to compliment her in the future. This would be an example of operant conditioning. – negative reinforcement by taking something away or positive rein. By adding a punisher 4. What is introspection? – method of looking within to describe emotions 5. Bandura’s interpretation of the Social Learning Theory is more closely aligned to Tolman’s approach than Hull’s approach to behaviorism. 6. What is natural selection? – 7. What is a nativist perspective? - A person believes you are born with knowledge 8. What is an empiricist perspective? -- You gain knowledge through experience e.g. Allison believes that great scientists have simply been given superior training, whereas Jason (who has a nativist perspective) believes that great scientists are born and not made. Jason is best described as a nativist. 9. A mental representation of one’s spatial surroundings is a cognitive map. – Tolman created this. 10. What is the law of contiguity? Provide an example. – events that occur in close proximity and get associated together. Eg. Thunder and lightning 11. What is the law of frequency? – how things can be easily associated together because of their occurrence I time. 12. When Danielle first saw Gina, she immediately thought of Reese Witherspoon. Among the four laws of association, this is most likely an example of the law of similarity . 13. Descartes suggested that at least some types of behaviors are mechanistic and can therefore be scientifically investigated. - 14. Descartes also strongly believed that there is a fundamental difference between humans and animals. He believed that only humans possess free will, while the behavior of nonhuman animals is entirely reflexive.

Psychology of Learning Study Guide Exam 1 15. Latent learning illustrates a distinction between learning and performance. For example, if Reese sits throughout lecture and does nothing, but afterwards can repeat everything the professor said, this is an example of latent learning. Chapter 2 Topics 1. Which method of research doesn’t involve manipulation of variables? – Descriptive research 2. What is a functional relationship? – cause and effect relationship between the variables 3. What is a variable? – thing that can very over time in an experiment 4. If you are conducting an experiment and investigating sleep deprivation, in your study sleep deprivation is your mediating variable. If you are experimenting with the effects of sleep deprivation on memory, sleep deprivation is an independent variable. The independent variable is the aspect of an experiment that is made to systematically vary across the different conditions in the experiment. In other words, the independent variable is what is manipulated in an experiment. 5. A stimulus is any event that can potentially influence behavior, and a response is a particular instance of a behavior. – if Jan says boo and Tyler jumps out, the jump is the response and Jan saying boo is stimulus 6. If there is a relationship between weight gain and eating chocolate chip cookies, this can be defined as a functional relationship in which you can make cause and effect statements. 7. If a certain diet affects the extent to which one is likely to acquire a certain disease, then there is a functional relationship between the diet and the disease. 8. A stimulus is any event that can potentially influence behavior. Light, sound, and odor are examples of stimuli. For example, if your brother slams a door loudly, then you jump in fright, this is an example of how the sound is a stimulus. 9. What is covert and overt behavior? Covert is behavior that is perceived only by the person performing that behavior. Overt is 10. The main advantage of experimental research over descriptive research is the ability to discover a cause and effect relationship. – Ex. Smoking cigarettes and developing cancer 11. What is an example of a dependent variable? – Grades 12. A cumulative recorder measures the rate of behavior. – charting aggression in a classroom 13. The case study approach involves the intensive study of a single individual. – studying a rare

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