Once an association is formed you can cause the stimulus to lose the ability to evoke the response by removing events paired with the stimulus. This is called ____________ of response.

The case of little Albert is used to demonstrate how easy it is to condition the ________ response

Tolman and Honzig demonstrated that learning occurred when the rats were exploring the maze even those who were unrewarded for doing so. They suggested the learning was a __________

Bandura’s theory is we acquire skills by _________ learning, watching and imitating a model’s behavior

Viewing violent media may lead to _______________a reduction in self-control that occurs because you have seen others “get away with it”

____________ are ways to manage social situations and watching violent media may create aggressive ways to manage social situations.

Skinner used the “Skinner box” to conduct ________________ because it allowed for careful introduction of a condition (independent variable) to see if it caused an effect (dependent variable).

To ________________ is to follow a response with a stimulus that increases the frequency of that response.

When your peers are nice to you it acts as a ____________ reinforcement because it increases the frequency of your response when applied, being nice to you is like a reward.

When you do your work to avoid a bad grade or avoid failing the class this is _____________ reinforcement because your response (effort) increases in frequency to avoid an unpleasant consequence.

Earning a sticker for good work on your paper is _____________ reinforcement because the sticker only has value through association with established reinforcers like smiles and praise.

Candy is a _____________ reinforcement because in our biological make up, sugar tastes good

To decrease behavior use _______________, repeated performance of a response without receiving the reinforcement and the person will gradually stop doing the response.

Use ________________ if what you want to do is rapidly suppress an undesirable behavior.

__________ interval schedules produce steady behavior because the reinforcement occurs at different times, you know you will get a reinforcer but you just don’t know when.

If you know you have to make 25 shoes before being paid, then you know you are on a fixed __________ schedule, the reinforcer occurs after a set amount of behaviors.

____ is the memory for specific information that is declarative, clearly state or explained

General knowledge such as what you learn in school books is called ___ memory.

______ memory is your memory for how to perform a procedure or skill and this is called non-declarative, because these memories are not state plainly or verbally.

Ability to recite the alphabet demonstrates _____, when repeated associations become automatic and make it possible to carry out mental tasks with less neural activity.

Memory for things that will occur in the future, such as remembering an upcoming appointment is called ____ memory.

When encoding information in order to remember it, using ______ code is to enter the information as images.

When we read the textbook it is visual information but we can also enter the information as _______ code or "the way it sounds".

The stage first encountered by the stimulus is _______ memory and in this stage the trace lasts for only a fraction of a second.

If you focus on a stimulus you retain it in _____ memory which is also called working memory.

______ memory is the third stage, psychologists think of it as a vast storehouse of information.

In short term or working memory, George Miller's research found the average person can remember ___ digits at a time.

The _____ effect is a tendency to recall the first and last items in a series more accurately than other items

The Petersons research demonstrated how when new information appears in short term the old information is pushed out of memory. This is called ______.

Elizabeth Loftus believes experience is not permanently imprinted, instead we represent our world though ____, for example we organize what we know according to labels.

Surprising, striking, emotional events create _____ memories, a network of associations that preserve the experience in some detail.

Taking a test in your classroom is the same environment in which you encoded the information, therefore it should assist your ______ dependent memory.

______ interference is when our capacity to retrieve material we recently learned is blocked because older information surfaces that is similar to but not the same as recent learning.

____ amnesia is the term used to describe our inability to recall events that occur prior to the age of 3 or 4 and this is likely explained by biological and cognitive factors.

Lapses of memory for events that followed after a trauma to the brain is called ___ amnesia.

The _____ perspective in psychology is the study of mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information.

___ are the mental categories we create to group objects, events, and ideas based on the common properties they share.

Many mental categories are formed around a ______ because it serves as a good example it is a best match to key features of the category.

The first task in problem solving is to ?

The _____ is a specific procedure for solving a problem and it will yield a correct answer if you apply it correctly.

To use a ____ is to use a shortcut, this will simplify the problem producing an answer by using a strategy that worked in the past but it does not guarantee a correct answer.

One reason an expert solves problems more efficiently and rapidly than an novice is ____ processing, to consider two or more elements simultaneously when finding a solution.

______ is the process of quickly and automatically responding to a new problem with the same approach that helped solve similar problems in the apst.

____ may occur after incubation, if it does you have a sudden perception of how elements of the problem all relate and this permits you to "see" a solution to your problem.