Theories of Learning, Fall 2006

Study Guide for Final Exam

Know the definitions of the following terms:

Universal grammar	Sensitive period	Syntax	Semantics
Pragmatics	Language acquisition device	Morpheme	Transformational grammar
Continuity theory	American sign language	Anthropomorphism	Descriptive rules
Prescriptive rules	Surface structure	Deep structure	Phoneme
primacy effect	recency effect	levels of processing	decay
retroactive interference	proactive interference	schema	script
schematic distortion	source amnesia	mnemonics	elaborative rehearsal
maintenance rehearsal	state-dependent learning	Korsakoff’s amnesia	anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia	latent learning	place learning	response learning
cognitive map	short-term memory	long-term memory	episodic memory
semantic memory	procedural memory	priming	explicit memory
implicit memory	genetic epistemology	assimilation	accommodation
object permanence	operations	egocentrism	conservation
modularity perseveration	neuron	axon	synapse
neurotransmitter	dopamine	action potential	myelin
dendrite	sensitization	habituation	cerebellum
electrical stim. of brain	equipotentiality	mass action	hippocampus
amygdala	consolidation	delayed match to sample	place neurons
long-term potentiation	engram	false memories	prospective memory
synaptic density	glucose metabolism	EEG	corpus callosum
plasticity	cell migration	Kennard principle	phantom limb
efficiency hypothesis	occipital lobe	parietal lobe	temporal lobe
frontal lobe

Know who the following people are, and what their contribution to learning theory was:

Chomsky

Piaget

Tolman

Be familiar with the following:

The difference between learning and performance.

Evidence that some aspects of language learning involve a critical or sensitive period.

The different types of memory.

Anterograde amnesia – what is it? What causes it?

Piaget’s stages.

Aplysia studies of habituation and classical conditioning.

Brain development in terms of neurons, synapses, glucose metabolism, and myelination.

Enriched and deprived environment studies.