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Review Sheet #5
Chapters 8 and 9
Learning and Memory
Learning:
- Classical conditioning (Pavlov)
o Conditioned stimulus (CS)
o Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
o Conditioned response (CR)
o Unconditioned response (UCR)
- Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, discrimination, overgeneralization
- Experiments: Pavlov’s dogs and the “Little Albert” experiment
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Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
Shaping, Primary reinforcers, Secondary reinforcers, latent learning, cognitive
mapping, overjustification
Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment
Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, discrimination, overgeneralization
Partial schedules of reinforcement: fixed ratio, variable ratio, variable interval,
fixed interval
Key experiment: The Skinner Box
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Observational Learning (Bandura)
Modeling, pro-social behavior, anti-social behavior
Experiment: “The Bobo Doll” experiment
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Memory:
- Flashbulb memories
- Episodic memories
- Repression
- The context effect
- Motivated forgetting
Encoding
- Mnemonic devices
- Spacing effect
- Serial effect
o Primacy effect
o Recency effect
Storage
- Iconic memories
- Echoic memories
- Role of the hippocampus
Retrieval
- Proactive interference
- Retroactive interference
- Ebbinghaus curve