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GRE Psychology: Learning

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1. Motivation to reduce internal tension - once satisfied - back to homeostasis/ relaxation; against M.E. Olds electrical stimulation of pleasure centres






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






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






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






5. Preparedness - that certain associations are learned more easily than others; animals programmed to make certain connections; Garcia effect - nausea associated with food






6. Natural reinforcement - without requirement of learning; food and water






7. Teacher encourages independent learning - only provides assistance when needed






8. Previous learning makes learning a new task more difficult






9. The failure to generalize a stimulus






10. Relatively permanent or stable change in behaviour as the result of experience






11. Fritz Heider'S balance theory - Charles Osgood and Percy Tannenbaum'S congruity theory - Leon Festinger'S cognitive dissonance theory; what about individuals who often seek stimulation - novel experience - or self-destruction?






12. Links together chains of stimuli and responses - learns what to do in response to particular triggers (leaving a building in response to fire alarm)






13. Operant conditioning






14. Reinforcement delivered after a consistent number of responses; vulnerable to extinction






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






16. Shaping; 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)






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






18. UCS and CS presented at the same time






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






20. Theory of association






21. 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






22. Motivated to do what they do not want to do by rewarding themselves afterwards with something they like to do - Eat dessert after eating unwanted vegetable






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






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






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






26. Does not produce a specific response on its own (e.g. light or bell)






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






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






29. Performance = Expectation x Value; expectancy-value theory; goals they expect they can meet and how important goal is






30. Part of motivation. One must be adequately aroused to learn or perform






31. Law of effect






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






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






35. Students working on a project in small groups






36. Pavlovian conditioning; teaching a response (relationship) to neutral stimulus by pairing with not-so-neutral stimulus






37. Response that CS elicits after conditioning; UCR and CR will be the same (e.g. salivation)






38. 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)






39. Punishment to decrease likelihood of a behaviour - ex: drug Antabuse to treat alcoholism






40. Teach to performance a desired behaviour to get away from a negative stimulus






41. Attitude change - based on balance of 'Sentiment' or liking relationships - if the net affect valence multiplies out to a positive result

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42. Evoking responses of autonomic nervous system through training






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






44. 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.






45. School of behaviourism






46. Rewards after a certain period of time rather than number of behaviours; can be argued that it does little to motivate an animal'S behaviour






47. Drive to reduce cognitive dissonance - holding conflicting ideas simultaneously whether beliefs - attitudes - or actions

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48. Opposite of stimulus discrimination; make same response to a group of similar stimuli (e.g. fire alarms may sound different but same response)






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






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







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