PSY 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Rod Gillis

Document Summary

Know the 6 kinds of learning, pavlov s original studies of classical conditioning, Know about thorndike, his puzzle boxes and his law of effect and how that law provides definitions for reward and punishment. Know the basics of b. f. skinner"s work on the schedules of reinforcement including the 4 types of partial reinforcement. Know the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment. Know the difference between shaping (also known as successive approximation) and chaining. Understand the term behavior modification also called behavioral therapy. Know about albert bandura"s bobo doll studies including the ideas of vicarious reinforcement and vicarious punishment and how these studies led researchers to make a distinction between learning and behavior for the first time. In the text, be sure to read the section on cognitive influences on learning. Know about the sensory register, iconic memory, echoic memory photographic memory also called eidetic imagery, the tachistoscope and the work of sperling.