PSY 2012 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensory Memory, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement
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Punishment: an event that tends to decrease the behavior that it follows: negative- punishment would be taking away tv or toys. Intrinsic motivation: a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake. Extrinsic motivation: a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment: applications of operant conditioning. Learning by observation: modeling: process of observing and imitating behavior, bandura"s study, prosocial behaviors. Memory: persistence of learning over time (evidence of memory: recalling information, recognizing, or relearning) Storage: how you file your memories: how many or what senses were involved, emotional factors. Retrieval: getting information out of memory: everyone has a different memory for events. Types of memory: sensory memory: very brief storage of sensory information. Implicit: of skills and classically conditioned associations happen without our awareness, through automatic processing: working memory: system for working with or processing current information, 3 components:
