Ap Psychology Chapter 6 Part 1

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Learning

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an experience that would change our behavior relatively permanent. "Learning is the eye of the mind."

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Habituation

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organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

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Conditioning

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the process of learning associations

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Classical conditioning

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learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

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Operant conditioning

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learning to associate a response and its consequence and thus to repeat acts followed by good results and avoid acts followed by bad results

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Observational Learning

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learn from others' experiences

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Behaviorism

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the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally- naturally and automatically- triggers a response

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that after associating with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes trigger a conditioned response

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Acquisition

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in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response

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Extinction

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diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs when a response is no longer reinforced

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Spontaneous Recovery

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the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

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Generalization

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the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

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Discrimination

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in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus