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Learning |
Acquisition of new Knowledge/ skills/ or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner |
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classical Conditioning |
wen a neutral stimulus evokes a response after being paired wit a stimulus that naturally evokes a response -Pavlov |
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Thorndike: Law of effect |
the principle that behaviors -that are followed by a "satisfying state of affairs" tend to be repeated -that produce an "unpleasant state of affairs" are less likely to be repeated |
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Operant Conditioning |
a type of learning in which the consequences of an organism's behavior determine whether it will be repeated in the future |
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Skinner: Reinforcement |
-animals learn by interacting with their environment -Act not passive -consequences of behavior determine whether it will be more or less likely to occur again |
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Reinforcement |
any stimulus that functions to increase the likelihood of the behavior that led to it -strengthen/ increasebehavior |
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Punisher |
any stimulus or event that functions to decrease the likelihood of the behavior that led to it |
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shaping |
learning that results from the reinforcement of successive approximations to a final desired behavior |
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Schedules of Reinforcement |
when/how an organism is reinforced for a particular behavior
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