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GRE Psychology: Learning

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1. Individuals are motivated by what brings most pleasure and least pain






2. Accidental learning - unrelated items grouped together; opposite of intentional learning (e.g. dog associates car with vet)






3. Neutral stimulus once paired with UCS; no naturally occurring response - only with UCS pairing (e.g. light (CS) eventually produces salivation)






4. Previous learning makes learning a new task more difficult






5. Need for achievement (nAch); need to pursue success or to avoid failure - goal is to feel successful






6. Learning and behaving by imitation; Albert Bandura'S Bobo doll (children watching adults with blow up dolls)






7. Learned reinforce - often through society; money - prestige - rewards






8. later proved experimentally - Classical conditioning






9. Not-so-neutral stimulus - elicits response without conditioning (e.g. salivation)






10. Linking a series of behaviours that result in reinforcement - one behaviour triggers the next (e.g. learning the alphabet)






11. Previous CS now a UCS (e.g.*bell > [ light > food > ] salivation)






12. Decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus due to increasing familiarity






13. Approach-avoidance conflict; state felt when a goal has both pros and cons - typically focus on pros when far from goal - cons when close to goal






14. Applied expectancy-value theory to individual behaviour in large organizations (e.g. those lowest on totem pole have least motivation since little incentives)






15. In classical conditioning - the inability to infer a relationship between a stimulus and response due to the presence of a more prominent stimulus






16. Most time to learn but least likely to be extinguished; reinforcements are delivered after different numbers of correct responses - ratio cannot be predicted






17. Removal of a negative event that increases likelihood of a particular response; while punishment introduces a negative event to decrease likelihood of a response






18. Individuals in the environment are motivated by secondary reinforcers; e.g. tokens in prisons - rehab - etc. - cashed in for more primary reinforcers (e.g. candy - books - privileges)






19. John Garcia - Certain associations are learned more easily than others - Nausea & food can be paired easily - but light and nausea cannot be paired






20. Differential reinforcement of successive approximations; Skinner rewarded rats first for being near lever then for touching it - reward for behaviours that brought them closer to the desired one (e.g. pressing lever)






21. Learning about something in general (history) for knowledge rather than learning-specific stimulus-response chains (e.g. Tolman'S experiments with animals forming cognitive maps of mazes rather than simple escape routes)






22. Credited with writing first educational textbook in 1903 to assess students and teaching






23. Learn 3-20 - constant 20-50 - drops 50+






24. Reversal of conditioning - dissociating behaviour from a cue - Repeatedly withholding reinforcement or disassociating the behavior from a cue






25. Lewin - grouping based on co-occurence in time and space; associate certain behaviours with certain rewards and cues






26. Parents reduce temper in child by not giving into - reinforcing behavior






27. Pairing of the CS and the UCS in which the CS is presented before the UCS - delayed conditioning and trace conditioning






28. Primary/instinctual (hunger or thirst) - secondary/ acquired (money or other learned reinforcers) - exploratory (seek novelty or explore) - We are primarily motivated to maintain physiological or psychological homeostasis.






29. Ebbinghaus - when learning something new - rate of learning usually changes over time; can be positively or negatively accelerated






30. Reappearance of an extinguished response - even without further conditioning - after the child'S tantrum behaviour has been extinguished - the child may suddenly throw a tantrum again






31. Increased sensitivity to environment after exposure to a strong stimulus - Rubbing arm after pain?






32. Previous learning helps learning of another task later






33. CS presented after UCS (e.g. food - then light); proven ineffective; accomplishes only inhibitory conditioning - harder time pairing CS with UCS later even with forward conditioning






34. Not all correct responses met with reinforcement; slower but more resistant; fixed ratio - variable ratio - fixed interval - variable interval; variable is best because it is unexpected - ratio gives better response since based on # of correct behavi






35. Born with certain physiological needs - will be tension if not satisfied; when it is - return to state of homeostasis and relaxation






36. Every correct response is met with reinforcement; quickest but most fragile learning - as soon as rewards stop coming - the animal stops performing






37. Law of effect






38. Type of forward conditioning; CS presented and terminated before UCS presentation






39. Performance = Drive x Habit; will do what has worked in the past to satisfy drive






40. Theory of association






41. Promotes extinction of undesirable behaviour - negative stimulus presented after behaviour to decrease likelihood of reoccurrence - Skinner thinks it is not effective in long run






42. How people learn in educational settings such as student and teacher attributes






43. People learn through their culture. They learn acceptable and unacceptable behaviours through culture






44. 'learning' that a specific action causes an event - when in reality the two are unrelated






45. Reward or positive event that increases likelihood of a particular response






46. Rewards delivered after differing time periods; second most effective strategy in maintaining behaviour






47. Previous CS now a UCS (e.g.*bell > [ light > food > ] salivation)






48. Simultaneous - higher-order/second-order - delayed forward - trace forward - backward






49. Associative or dissociative attitudes on 7pt scale toward objects

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50. Operant conditioning







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