Ch. 7 Objectives:
Ch. 10 Objectives:
- Differentiate between the key principles of classical and operant conditioning.
- Understand the process of stimulus conditioning using classical conditioning principles.
- Describe both the impact of classical conditioning on everyday life and the therapeutic technique of counterconditioning.
- Compare and contrast the operant conditioning consequences of reinforcement and punishment.
- Describe shaping, extinction, stimulus generalization and discrimination in operant conditioning.
- Describe how superstitions might be learned according to operant conditioning.
- List and discuss six limitations of punishment as a way of controlling behavior and state a more effective strategy.
- Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic reinforcers, and discuss the effects of extrinsic reinforcers on motivation. Describe how extrinsic reinforcers should be used.
- Explain social-cognitive theories and compare them to conditioning models of learning.
Ch. 10 Objectives:
- Discuss the reconstructive nature of memory and the role of confabulation.
- Compare recognition, recall, priming, relearning and explicit and implicit memory.
- Compare and contrast the information-processing and parallel distributed processing of memory.
- Describe the "three-box model" of memory and explain its components.
- Identify the role, characteristics and limitation of the sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory.
- Distinguish among procedural, declarative, semantic, and episodic memories.
- Identify strategies for enhancing memory.
- Summarize current findings about the psychological processes involved in memory.
- List and explain reasons for forgetting.
- Describe the relationship between a person's "life story" and actual memories, including which memories are most likely to be trustworthy.