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Know the definition of learning as well as the three important parts of learning as described in the book.
What is associative learning?
What are the two types of associative learning that we have studied?
Be able to generally describe Classical Conditioning and the main parts of it.
Be familiar with the Pavlov experiment with the dog salivation.
Know the four key elements of Classical Conditioning: unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
Be able to provide an example of classical conditioning in an essay/short answer format.
Be able to recognize and pick out the UCS, UR, CS, and CR from an example that is provided for you.
What is the difference between an Unconditioned response and a Conditioned response?
What is acquisition?
Be familiar with stimulus contingency conditioning.
Know the definitions of delayed conditioning, simultaneous conditioning, trace conditioning, and backward conditioning. Which is most effective?
What is conditioned taste aversion?
What is extinction?
What is reinstatement?
What is generalization?
Discrimination?
What is operant conditioning. Know the definition and be able to distinguish between the definition and the important parts of classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
What is the law of effect? Who proposed this law?
What is reinforcement?
Know the difference between positive and negative reinforcement. Be able to identify each of these in an example. Be able to provide an example of each of these.
Know escape and avoidance conditioning. Know the differences between the two.
What are the two types of partial reinforcement?
What is the partial reinforcement effect?
Know the definitions of fixed ratio schedule, variable ratio schedule, fixed interval schedule, variable interval schedule.
What is shaping?
What is modeling?
What is punishment?
What is the difference between reinforcement and punishment?
What are the limitations of punishment?
What are the advantages of punishment?
Be able to recognize and identify the differences between operant and classical conditioning.
What is memory?
Is memory static or constructed?
What is encoding?
Know storage and retrieval as well as the possible problems with these two things.
What is the model of memory?
Know the definitions and the differences between sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory
What is eidetic imagery/ photographic memory
Know what a Mnemonic device is and the 6 different devices the book describes.
Know recall, recognition, relearning, and overlearning
What is an implicit memory? An explicit memory?
What are false memories?
Is eyewitness testimony always reliable? Why or why not?
What are schemas?
What is state-dependency memory?
How can extreme emotions affect memory encoding? Retrieval?
What causes forgetting?
Interference? Proactive interference? Retroactive interference?
What is the serial position effect?
Retrieval Failure?
Motivated forgetting?
What are some organic causes of forgetting?
Be familiar with the ways that memory can be improved. These may also help you with studying for your exam.

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