L&C Quiz 1

Front

4 key features of the definition of learning

Back

1. 1. there's a change

2. 2. change is lasting

3. 3. experience and practice

4. 4. learning situation is important

Front

What is experience?

Back

Any effects of the environment
mediated by a sensory system

Front

What are two major ways of learning?

Back

1. 1. Non-associative

2. 2. Associative

Front

What is habituation?

Back

Habituation is a “getting
used to it” response

Front

Why is habituation adaptive?

Back

It allows us to learn that a stimulus is not significant, and therefoe you don't have to be distracted by petty events

Front

What is sensitisation?

Back

a learning process where repeated exposure to a stimulus or experience, especially a strong or painful one, causes an organism to become more responsive to it

Front

Changes in behaviour that are not due to associative learning

Back

Habituation
Innate response tendencies
(reflexes, taxes, instincts)
Maturation
(regular stages, unaffected by practice)
Fatigue
(disappears after break)
Changes due to physiological/motivational state
Change due to evolution vs. change due to learning

Front

What is cognitive psychology?

Back

The study of MENTAL processes such as perceiving, attending,
remembering and reasoning

Front

Why did behaviorism become the main approach to study psychology in the past?

Back

Because there was lack of progress as a scientific field through introspection

Front

Tabula Rasa means?

Back

Blank slate. Humans are born without any innate traits and everything that we are is shaped by the environment.