Memory and Learning

Previously learned responses decrease in frequency and eventually disappear.

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Habituation

• Reinforcement Schedule

Conditioned responses occurring to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus.

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Habituation

• Partial Reinforcment Schedule

Overuse of stimulus which decreases the effectiveness because it has no longer become meaningful.

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Habituation

• Continuous Reinforcement Schedule

Reinforcement is given at regular intervals, but not every time

• Continuous Reinforcement Schedule

• Partial Reinforcement Schedule

• Thorndike's Law of Effect

• Punishment

What are the factors which Influence Eye Witness Testimony?

• Violence

• Types of Questions Asked

• Type of Line-Up

• Ethnicity

Who are better witnesses?

• Children

• Adults

• Teens

• Elderly

What is the loss in accessibility of previously stored information?

• Forgetting

• Amnesia

• Learning

• Tip of Tongue Phenomena

The process of forgetting something slowly over a long period of time.

• Decay

• Interference

• Repression

• Enconding Failure

Other information gets in the way.

• Decay

• Interference

• Repression

• Enconding Failure

Motivated forgetting.

• Decay

• Interference

• Repression

• Encoding Failure