Psychological Processes in Learning Quiz

Negative reinforcement increases behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus.

Extinction in operant conditioning refers to the diminishing of a learned response when reinforcement is discontinued.

Cognitivism emphasizes mental processes and active organization of information during learning.

Operant conditioning involves forming associations between stimuli and responses to learn new behaviors.

During adolescence, the primary developmental task according to Erik Erikson is resolving the conflict between identity and role confusion.

Acquisition is the first stage in classical conditioning where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Albert Bandura is the psychologist known for the social-cognitive theory, focusing on observational learning and modeling.

Jean Piaget is known for the stages of cognitive development, detailing sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages.

A cognitive map is a mental representation of the spatial layout of one's environment.

Primacy effect is the tendency to remember the first items in a list more effectively.

Long-term memory is the storage of information for conscious, intentional recall of past experiences.

Consolidation is the stage in the Information Processing Model where information moves from short-term to long-term memory.

Implicit memory, in the dual-process model, involves unconscious automatic memories like skills and habits.

State-dependent memory is the phenomenon where recall is enhanced when in the same physical or mental state as when the information was learned.

Extinction in classical conditioning is the diminishing of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus is no longer paired.