Learning & Cognition

2. side effects of adaptations that may be co-opted for the benefit of the organism
9. the study of intact, meaningful mental events
11. Piaget’s major motivational concept Cathexis formation of an association between a certain drive state, such as hunger, and certain stimuli, such as food on is use to eating
14. a role that motivation plays in Tolman’s theory
15. the birth and development of new neurons
19. memory for complex motor skills that may not include memory that the skill has been learned
21. study of the nature of knowledge
22. responding to the physical environment in accordance with existing cognitive structures
23. make the victim of one’s immoral actions appear to be less human in an attempt to escape self-contempt

1. increased probability of making a previously learned response that results from observing another person making the response
3. brain structure within the limbic system thought to be involved in the conversion of short-term memory into long-term memory
4. Este’s cognitive model of classification/categorization
5. general potential to engage in a class or covert actions
6. a makeshift language that contains nouns and verbs from various language groups
7. realization that number, length, substance, or area has not changed
8. Popper’s term for the innate desire to revise expectancies continuously so that they are increasing accurate in reflecting reality
9. learning where an object is located.
10. Biological/behavioral scientists who study specific types of innate behavior
12. behavior patterns that are conditioned to maintaining stimuli
13. contentions that brain wave activity ranges from very fast to very slow with a rate in between that allows for optimal performance of certain task
16. behavior that occurs reliably in the absence of experimental manipulations
17. the Gestalt version of transfer of training, which states that a principle that works in solving a problem will tend to be applied to solving other problems
18. behavior that is apparently unselfish and self sacrificing
20. defined by Bandura as anticipation of the consequences of our intentions