PSY 2012 Final Exam (with 100% error-free answers)

instinct correct answers an inborn pattern of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli also known as a fixed action pattern. learning correct answers a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior due to experience classical conditioning correct answers a type of learning in which associations are formed between two stimuli that occur sequentially in time mazwald operent conditioning correct answers a type of learning in which association are formed between behaviors and their outcomes skinner observational learning correct answers learning that occurs when one organism watches the actions of another organism also known as social leaning or modeling extinction correct answers the reduction of a learned response. spontaneous recovery correct answers during extinction training, the response reappearance of conditioned responses after periods of rest (reappearance of CR following periods of rest between extinction training sessions) imitation correct answers copying behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and spontaniously memory correct answers the ability to retain knowledge endcoding correct answers the transformation of information from one form to another storage correct answers the retention of information retrieval correct answers the recovery of stored information sensory memory correct answers the first stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds large amounts of incoming data for brief amounts of time short-term memory correct answers the second stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds a small amount of information for a limited time long-term memory correct answers the final stage of the atkinson-shffrin model that is the location of permanent memories