Vocabulary

Vocabulary

...– a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate one stimulus with another.

3) Behavior Modification – process of working to directly alter a patient's behavior pattern in order to minimize self-defeating treads and heighten positive trends and self satisfaction.

4) Intelligence – the capacity to learn from experience and adapt successfully to one's environment.

5) Abraham Maslow – American psychologist noted foe proposal of a hierarchy of human needs from basic to higher needs.

6) Explicit Memory – a type of memory elicited through the conscious retrieval of recollections in response to direct questions.

7) Recognition – a form of explicit memory retrieval in which items are presented to a person who must determine if they were previously encountered.

8) Implicit Memory – a non0conscious recollection of a prior experience that is revealed indirectly, by its effect on performance.

9) Recall – pulling up knowledge from your memory.

10) Short-term Memory – a memory storage system that holds about seven items for up to 20 seconds before the material is transferred to long-term or is forgotten.

11) Long-term Memory – a relatively permanent memory storage system that can hold vast amounts of information for many years.

12) Procedural Memory – long-term memory skills and procedures, how to knowledge.

13) Declarative Memory – stored long- term knowledge of facts about the world and ourselves.

14) Semantic Memory – everything on knows., not connected to any specific experience where it is acquired, part of a declarative memory.

15) Episodic Memory – memories of a single event, part of declarative memory.

16) Attribution Theory – a set of theories that describe how people are the cause of behavior.

17) Howard Gardner – cognitive and educational psychologist, noted for the theory of multiple intelligence and...

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