Explain Seligman's Ideas on Preparedness, and Evaluate the Challenges They

question 87

Essay

Explain Seligman's ideas on preparedness, and evaluate the challenges they pose to the
assumption that there is generality of learning laws.

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Definitions:

Rehearsing

The act of practicing or repeating information or activities in order to improve skill or memorize information.

Rehearsing

involves repetitively practicing material to be remembered, a strategy to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, allowing the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended, acting as a buffer for stimuli received through the senses.

Acoustic Coding

A process by which information is remembered and stored in the brain as a sequence of sounds, often used in studies of short-term and working memory.