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12 Cards in this Set
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What is Learning? |
A permanent change in behaviour acquired through an experience. |
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Classical Conditioning |
Form of learning where an association is formed between one stimulus and another. |
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Stimulus? |
An event or object in the environment to which an organism responds |
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Pavlov's Dog? |
Pavlov questioned how an involuntary response such as salivating could be associated with the sights and sounds of eating. |
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Reflex? |
involuntary response to a stimulus |
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Conditioned reflex? |
A learned reflex opposed to a naturally occurring one. |
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Unconditioned stimulus? |
Something that reliably produces a natural occurring reaction. |
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Unconditioned response? |
Reflexive action reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus.
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Conditioned stimulus? |
Stimulus that is initially neutral, produces no reliable response |
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Conditioned response? |
Resembles and unconditioned response, but created with a conditioned stimulus |
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Operant Learning? |
Type of learning where the consequences of behaviour alter that behaviour in the future.
- behaviour that is reinforced tends to be repeated |
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Skinner Box: |
Skinner Produced a sound-proof operant learning apparatus; One type of box possesed a lever/bar that a rat would pull to gain a reward of food pellets or water. Rats conditioned through shaping by pressing the bar for food. |
