Week 5 Review: Neurons, Learning, Cognitive Psychology

The space between two neurons is called the ________.

________ is the electrical signal that typically moves from the cell body down the axon to the axon terminals.

If a stimulus plus a response results in a satisfying outcome, the probability of that response occurring again ________.

In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between a ________.

Which of the following is a process by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events?

Which of the following is the decrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus?

In operant conditioning, what describes adding something to increase the likelihood of behavior?

In operant conditioning, what describes adding something to decrease the likelihood of behavior?

Learning that occurs while watching others and then imitating, or modeling, what they do or say is called ________ learning.

From a psychological perspective, the term cognition means ________.

A(an) ________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.

A(an) ________ involves approaching a problem in a way that has worked in the past, but it is clearly no longer working.

The fact that English grammar dictates that most verbs end in-ed to indicate past tense is an example of the ________ component of language.

After the first few months of life, babies enter what is known as the ________ stage, during which time they tend to produce single syllables, such as buh-buh, that are repeated over and over.

Nima excels at working with numbers in subjects such as calculus and algebra. This exemplifies ________ intelligence.