Midterm Review

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Midterm Review
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Chapters 1 2

• Definition of Learning
• Change in behaviour due to experience
• Behaviour Evolution
• Types of selection natural, artificial, sexual
• Selection works on physical features as well as
  behaviours
• Limits to selection
• Evolved modifiabililty
• Evolution of learning

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Chapters 1 2

• Innate behaviours
• Reflexes
• Fixed Action Patterns
• General Behaviour Traits
• Simple types of learning
• Sensitization
• Habituation

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Chapters 1 2

• The science of studying learning
• Operational definitions
• Ways to measure learning
• Ways to study learning
• Anecdotal, naturalistic, case studies,
  descriptive, experimental
• Experimental studies
• Types of variables
• Different designs
• Evaluating Research
• Validity, Reliability, Biases, Blind-procedures

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Chapter 3

• Brief history
• Terminology Basic procedures
• Ways to measure conditioning
• Intensity, probes, suppression
• S-S association
• Higher-order conditioning

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Chapter 3

• Types
• Delay, Trace, Simultaneous, Backwards, Inhibitory
• Factors affecting conditioning
• How it all works
• Acquisition curves
• Extinction, spontaneous recovery, re-acquisition
• Theories
• Stimulus Substitution, Preparatory Response

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Chapter 4

• Conditional Emotional Response
• Fear, Prejudice
• Little Albert Peter
• Counter-conditioning, systematic desensitization
• Advertising
• Paraphilia
• Aversion therapy
• Taste aversion
• Immune Function

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Chapter 5 6

• Differences between operant classical
• Brief history (Thorndike, Skinner)
• Law of Effect
• Discrete vs Free operant
• Contingencies
• Shaping, Chaining Secondary reinforcers
• Factors affecting reinforcement punishment

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Chapters 5 6

• Theories
• Drive Reduction theory, Relative Value theory
  (Premack Principle), Response Deprivation theory
• Escape, Avoidance Punishment
• Two-process, One-process
• Learned Helplessness
• Alternatives to punishment
• Differential reinforcement, non-contingent
  reinforcement

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Chapters 5 6

• Latent Learning
• Importance of reinforcement/punishment in learning