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GRE Psychology: Learning

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1. 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)






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

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






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






5. Thorndike - precursor of operant conditioning - Cause-and-effect chain of behaviour; continue what rewards - stop what doesn'T






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






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






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






9. Students working on a project in small groups






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






11. Operant conditioning






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






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






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






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






17. 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)






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






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






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






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






22. Those who set realistic goals with intermediate risk feel pride with accomplishment - and want to succeed more than they fear failure - however less likely to set unrealistic or risky goals or to persist when success is unlikely






23. School of behaviourism






24. Type of forward conditioning; CS begins before UCS - lasts until the UCS is presented






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






26. later proved experimentally - Classical conditioning






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






28. Empty box (with a rat and a lever) - later proved the influence of reinforcement






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. Ability to discriminate between different but similar stimuli (door bell is different from phone ringing)






34. Previous learning helps learning of another task later






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






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






37. Naturally occurring response (e.g. salivation to food)






38. Continuous motions easier to learn - once started continues naturally - bike; discrete divided into parts and do not facilitate recall of each other - setting up chessboard






39. 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






40. Learning curve






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






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






43. The failure to generalize a stimulus






44. Set of characteristics indicative of one'S ability to learn






45. Medium amount of arousal best for performance






46. 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)






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






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






50. Theory of association







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