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3590 exam
Question | Answer |
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Learning? | A relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs through experience |
positive punishment | adds unwelcomed consequence |
Systematic desensitization | an anxiety-reducing method attained by associating deep relaxation with successive visualizations of increasingly anxiety-provoking situation E.g., eliminating phobias |
Observational Learning | Attention, Retention, Motor Reproduction, Reinforcement or incentive conditions |
Thinking | manipulating and transforming information in memory, often to from concepts. reason, think critically and solve problems |
concepts | categories used to group objects, events and characteristics based on common properties |
interference theory | theory that suggest we forget when other information getting in the way of what we are trying to remember vs losing memories from storage |
Atkinson-Shiffrin model | states that memory involves a sequence of three stages: sensory memory, short-term memory (working memory) and long-term memory. |
Declarative memory or explicit memory | the conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts or events that can be verbally communicated. |
Procedural memory or implicit memory | knowledge in the form of skills and cognitive operations. |
episodic memory | the retention of information about the where and when of life's happenings |
Semantic memory | Student's general knowledge about the world |
Semantic and episodic memory match with | Declarative (explicit) |
script | a schema for an event |
Retrieval: Serial position effect | Recall is better for items at the beginning and end of a list that for items in the middle |
Primacy effect | items at the beginning of a list tend to be remembered |
recency effect | items at the end of a list tend to be remembered |
Forgetting: Cue-dependent forgetting | retrieval failure caused by a lack of effective retrieval cues |
inductive reasoning | reasoning from the specific to the general |
deductive reasoning | reasoning from the general to the specific |
Critically thinking | thinking reflectively and productively and evaluating the evidence |
algorithms | strategies that guarantee a solution to a problem ie, formulas, instructions, and tests |
Heuristics | strategies or guidelines that can suggest a solution to a problem by do not guarantee a solution |
Near transfer | transfer the occurs when situations are very similar |
Far transfer | transfer of learning to a situation that is very different from the one in which the initial learning took place |
Low-road transfer | transfer that occurs when previous leaning is transferred to another situation automatically and often unconsciously |
high-road transfer | transfer that is conscious and effortful |
Metacongnitive knowledge | monitoring and reflecting on one's current or recent thoughts |
meracognitive activity | consciously adaptiing and managing thinking stragegies during problem solving and purposeful thinkign |