Unit 5 Study Guide
Intelligence, Learning, Thinking and Memory
Read chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 from your text. Pay attention to films, lectures and handouts.
Concepts and terms-
Intelligence
aptitude
mental retardation
intuition
IQ
mental age
Weschsler scales
gifted
standardization
standard distribution / bell curve
achievement
reliable / valid (testing)
multiple intelligences model (Gardner)
Stanford-Binet test
mental retardation
heritability
g-factor (general intelligence)
cultural bias
instinct
Learning
reinforcement (positive and negative)
rewards
punishment
acquisition
generalization (stimulus)
discrimination (stimulus)
extinction
spontaneous recovery
classical conditioning
reconditioning (counter)
operant conditioning
instrumental conditioning
observational learning
social learning theory
latent learning
counter conditioning
systematic desensitization
conditioned response (cr)
conditioned stimulus (cs)
unconditioned stimulus (ucs)
unconditioned response (ucr)
neutral stimulus (ns)
Thorndike's law of effect
schedule of reinforcement
continuous reinforcement
fixed interval schedule
variable interval schedule
flooding
shaping
skinner box
primary reinforcers
secondary reinforcers
taste aversion
behavior modification
pigeon project
Memory
short term memory
long term memory
episodic memory / flashbulb memory
generic memory
procedural memory / muscle memory
encoding
retrieval
storage
context dependent memory
state dependent memory (mood)
elaborate rehearsal
key words / visual images / mental map
retrieval cues
schemas
chunking
rote / maintenace rehearsal
semantic memories
semantic cues
alzheimers disease
amnesia
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
interference
deja vu
decay
engram
anchoring
repression
hippocampus
problem solving
trial and error
algorithm
heuristics
confirmation bias
fixation
functional fixation
insight
People-
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
Little Albert
B.F. Skinner
Edward Tolman
David Wechsler
Noam Chomsky
Claude Steele
Albert Bandura
Herman Ebbinghaus
Alfred Binet
Howard Gardner
Roger Sternberg
Arthur Jensen
Marilyn vos Savant
Robert Jarvick
Questions-
1. What is Intelligence?
2. Read the truth and fiction questions at the beginning of each chapter and in the film guide.
3. Why are the childrend punching dolls on page 259? Read the Life Connections section to find out.
4. Look at the picture on page 252? What do we learn from the one armed bandits?
5. Understand the differences between punishment and negative reinforcement? (page 248)
6. On page 246 you see a picture of a box. What kind of box is it? What happens inside?
7. Who wrote Walden Two? Read the In Profile section on page 244.
8. Who is the Roger Moore (not 007) they talk about in the In Profile section on page 244?
9. Have knowledge of the nine intelligences that are discussed on page 338.
10. How is the picture on page 250 an example of discrimination?
11. Why is there a picture of a bird on page 232?
12. Read the case study about Little Albert (page 241). How have ethics changed in regard to the
treatment of people participating in experiments?
13. Why are shoppers been compared to rats on page 255?
14. Try to solve the problems on page 311?
15. Read the reviews on page- 261, 262, 303, 304, 305, 331, 332, 360 and 361.
Skills-
1. Memorize the following letters- thunstofam
2. Know the letter that comes next in the sequence- OTTFFSSENT-
3. Memorize the presidents of the USA in order.
4. Understand and practice the steps of elaborate rehearsal.
5. Understand the steps or classical conditioning, Thorndike's law of effect and operant conditioning.
6. Learn the twenty number sequence that Platt has you memorize.
7. Will be able to tell the difference between punishment and negative reinforcement.
8. Will know the differences between the types of conditioning we talked about in class.
9. WIll be able to recognize the contributions of people in this unit.
10. Will learn to laugh at one of Platt's jokes before the end of the semester.
Intelligence, Learning, Thinking and Memory
Read chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 from your text. Pay attention to films, lectures and handouts.
Concepts and terms-
Intelligence
aptitude
mental retardation
intuition
IQ
mental age
Weschsler scales
gifted
standardization
standard distribution / bell curve
achievement
reliable / valid (testing)
multiple intelligences model (Gardner)
Stanford-Binet test
mental retardation
heritability
g-factor (general intelligence)
cultural bias
instinct
Learning
reinforcement (positive and negative)
rewards
punishment
acquisition
generalization (stimulus)
discrimination (stimulus)
extinction
spontaneous recovery
classical conditioning
reconditioning (counter)
operant conditioning
instrumental conditioning
observational learning
social learning theory
latent learning
counter conditioning
systematic desensitization
conditioned response (cr)
conditioned stimulus (cs)
unconditioned stimulus (ucs)
unconditioned response (ucr)
neutral stimulus (ns)
Thorndike's law of effect
schedule of reinforcement
continuous reinforcement
fixed interval schedule
variable interval schedule
flooding
shaping
skinner box
primary reinforcers
secondary reinforcers
taste aversion
behavior modification
pigeon project
Memory
short term memory
long term memory
episodic memory / flashbulb memory
generic memory
procedural memory / muscle memory
encoding
retrieval
storage
context dependent memory
state dependent memory (mood)
elaborate rehearsal
key words / visual images / mental map
retrieval cues
schemas
chunking
rote / maintenace rehearsal
semantic memories
semantic cues
alzheimers disease
amnesia
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
interference
deja vu
decay
engram
anchoring
repression
hippocampus
problem solving
trial and error
algorithm
heuristics
confirmation bias
fixation
functional fixation
insight
People-
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
Little Albert
B.F. Skinner
Edward Tolman
David Wechsler
Noam Chomsky
Claude Steele
Albert Bandura
Herman Ebbinghaus
Alfred Binet
Howard Gardner
Roger Sternberg
Arthur Jensen
Marilyn vos Savant
Robert Jarvick
Questions-
1. What is Intelligence?
2. Read the truth and fiction questions at the beginning of each chapter and in the film guide.
3. Why are the childrend punching dolls on page 259? Read the Life Connections section to find out.
4. Look at the picture on page 252? What do we learn from the one armed bandits?
5. Understand the differences between punishment and negative reinforcement? (page 248)
6. On page 246 you see a picture of a box. What kind of box is it? What happens inside?
7. Who wrote Walden Two? Read the In Profile section on page 244.
8. Who is the Roger Moore (not 007) they talk about in the In Profile section on page 244?
9. Have knowledge of the nine intelligences that are discussed on page 338.
10. How is the picture on page 250 an example of discrimination?
11. Why is there a picture of a bird on page 232?
12. Read the case study about Little Albert (page 241). How have ethics changed in regard to the
treatment of people participating in experiments?
13. Why are shoppers been compared to rats on page 255?
14. Try to solve the problems on page 311?
15. Read the reviews on page- 261, 262, 303, 304, 305, 331, 332, 360 and 361.
Skills-
1. Memorize the following letters- thunstofam
2. Know the letter that comes next in the sequence- OTTFFSSENT-
3. Memorize the presidents of the USA in order.
4. Understand and practice the steps of elaborate rehearsal.
5. Understand the steps or classical conditioning, Thorndike's law of effect and operant conditioning.
6. Learn the twenty number sequence that Platt has you memorize.
7. Will be able to tell the difference between punishment and negative reinforcement.
8. Will know the differences between the types of conditioning we talked about in class.
9. WIll be able to recognize the contributions of people in this unit.
10. Will learn to laugh at one of Platt's jokes before the end of the semester.