Psychology 2000 LSU Exam 2
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classic conditioning - ✔✔occurs by association between events in our environment
classic conditioning - ✔✔our minds naturally connect events that occur in a sequence.
when one event precedes another, we learn to associate one event with the other.
stimulus-stimulus learning - ✔✔learning to associate one stimulus with another
acquisition - ✔✔the initial stage in classical conditioning during which association
between a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus takes place
extinction - ✔✔when you stop pairing. unlearning.
spontaneous recovery - ✔✔after a rest period an extinguished CR recovers
stimulus generalization - ✔✔tendency to respond to stimuli similar to CS. the tendency
to respond to stimuli not present during training.
stimulus discrimination - ✔✔the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other
stimuli that do not signal a US
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,operant conditioning - ✔✔voluntary behaviors. importance of consequences of
behavior.
increasing or decreasing occurrences of behavior.
punishment/reinforcement.
latent learning - ✔✔when an organism learns something in its life, but the knowledge is
not immediately expressed
insight - ✔✔rapid perception of relationships - requires a sudden "coming together" of
all the elements of a problem
language - ✔✔an open and symbolic communication system that has rules of grammar
and allows its users to express abstract and distant ideas
protolanguage - ✔✔very rudimentary language, also known as pre-language, used by
earlier species of homo
phonemes - ✔✔the smallest distinctive sound unit in a spoken language
morpheme - ✔✔the smallest unit that carries meaning may be a word of a part if a word
grammar - ✔✔a system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and
understand others
semantics - ✔✔set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and
sentences.
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, syntax - ✔✔the rules for ordering words into grammatically sensible sentences.
linguistic relativity hypothesis - ✔✔the theory that thought processes and concepts are
controlled by language
cognitive universalism - ✔✔theory that concepts are universal and influence the
development of language
thinking (cognition) - ✔✔mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is
processing information
mental images - ✔✔mental representations that stand for objects or events and have a
picture-like quality
concepts - ✔✔ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities.
formal concepts - ✔✔concepts that are defined by specific rules or features
natural concepts - ✔✔concepts people form as a result of their experiences in the real
world
super-ordinate concept - ✔✔the most general form of a type of concept, such as
"animal" or "fruit"
basic level type - ✔✔an example of a type of concept around which other similar
concepts are organized, such as "dog", "cat", or "pear"
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
classic conditioning - ✔✔occurs by association between events in our environment
classic conditioning - ✔✔our minds naturally connect events that occur in a sequence.
when one event precedes another, we learn to associate one event with the other.
stimulus-stimulus learning - ✔✔learning to associate one stimulus with another
acquisition - ✔✔the initial stage in classical conditioning during which association
between a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus takes place
extinction - ✔✔when you stop pairing. unlearning.
spontaneous recovery - ✔✔after a rest period an extinguished CR recovers
stimulus generalization - ✔✔tendency to respond to stimuli similar to CS. the tendency
to respond to stimuli not present during training.
stimulus discrimination - ✔✔the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other
stimuli that do not signal a US
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,operant conditioning - ✔✔voluntary behaviors. importance of consequences of
behavior.
increasing or decreasing occurrences of behavior.
punishment/reinforcement.
latent learning - ✔✔when an organism learns something in its life, but the knowledge is
not immediately expressed
insight - ✔✔rapid perception of relationships - requires a sudden "coming together" of
all the elements of a problem
language - ✔✔an open and symbolic communication system that has rules of grammar
and allows its users to express abstract and distant ideas
protolanguage - ✔✔very rudimentary language, also known as pre-language, used by
earlier species of homo
phonemes - ✔✔the smallest distinctive sound unit in a spoken language
morpheme - ✔✔the smallest unit that carries meaning may be a word of a part if a word
grammar - ✔✔a system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and
understand others
semantics - ✔✔set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and
sentences.
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, syntax - ✔✔the rules for ordering words into grammatically sensible sentences.
linguistic relativity hypothesis - ✔✔the theory that thought processes and concepts are
controlled by language
cognitive universalism - ✔✔theory that concepts are universal and influence the
development of language
thinking (cognition) - ✔✔mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is
processing information
mental images - ✔✔mental representations that stand for objects or events and have a
picture-like quality
concepts - ✔✔ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities.
formal concepts - ✔✔concepts that are defined by specific rules or features
natural concepts - ✔✔concepts people form as a result of their experiences in the real
world
super-ordinate concept - ✔✔the most general form of a type of concept, such as
"animal" or "fruit"
basic level type - ✔✔an example of a type of concept around which other similar
concepts are organized, such as "dog", "cat", or "pear"
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