Learning

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Relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs in result to experience. It does not include behavior stages due to maturation, drug-induced states or fatigue.

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Learning

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One event follows another.
Learning based on signals.

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Classical Conditioning

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Organism learns that its response will be follwed by a particular consequence

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Operant Conditioning

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Perspective that focuses on external stimuli, association between a stimulus and a response, the same basic laws of learning apply regardless what or who.

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Associative/Behaviorist Perspective

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Perspective wherein behavior is not solely due to environmental causes but also internal events such as processing of information about the environment, storing it in memory and manipulating that information to solve problems.

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Cognitive Perspective

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Russian physiologist known for his study of classical conditioning in relation to dogs, humans and food.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Classical Conditioning
forming new responses

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Aquisition

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Classical Conditioning
weakening conditioned responses

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Extinction

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Classical Conditioning
recovering conditioned responses

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Spontaneous Recovery

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Classical Conditioning
CS + CS2 neutral = stimulus still reacts

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Higher Order Conditioning

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Classical Conditioning
Little Albert - scared of white rats - scared of anything white and furry

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Stimulus Generalization

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Classical Conditioning
Circle is not the same as oblong.

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Stimulus Discrimination

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Classical Conditioning
Lightning then Thunder

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Contiguity

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Classical Conditioning
Lightning always before thunder

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Predictability

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A conditional stimulus overshadows the presentation of a new stimulus

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Blocking

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A psychology doctoral student at Columbia University, he studied animal intelligence and came out with the Law of Effect

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Edward Thorndike

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Of several responses made to the same situation, those accompanied or closely followed by satisfaction to the animal will, other things being equal, be more firmly connected with the situation so that when the situation recurs, the same responses will be more likely to recur. The greater the satisfaction generated by a response, the greater the strengthening of the bond and vice versa.

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The Law of Effect

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Project Pigeon - birds were trained to guide missiles to their targets

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BF Skinner

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subject is instrumental to obtaining the reinforcer

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Instrumental Learning

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A contingency rule that states that some event B will occur if and only if event A occurs.

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Three-term contingency

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Three-term contingency in Operant Conditioning

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1. Discriminative Stimulus
2. Response
3. Stimulus Reinforcer

ex. jokes (response)
laughter (reinforcer)
location > party vs. church (discriminative stimulus)

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Law of Effect in Progressive Terms

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Shaping

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Strengthens the response it follows.

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Reinforcer

Two Types
1. Positive Reinforcer
2. Negative Reinforcer

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Enumerate the five schedules of reinforcement

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Continuous Reinforcement
Fixed-Ratio
Variable-Ratio
Fixed-Interval
Variable-Interval

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Aversive stimulus is presented after a response with a view suppressing the response

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Punishment

Two types
1. Positive Punishment
2. Negative Punishment