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21 Cards in this Set
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Learning |
A lasting change in knowledge or behavior based on experience |
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Acquisition |
Gaining new knowledge or behavior to use in the future |
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Classical conditioning |
A neutral stimulus is associated with an unlearned stimulus and its automatic response |
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Operant conditioning |
training emits behaviors to make them more likely to occur again |
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Observational learning |
Acquiring new behaviors from watching a model |
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Unconditioned stimulus |
an unlearned signal that leads to an automatic,reflexive response |
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Unconditioned response |
A physiological behavior that is involuntarily elicited by a stimulus |
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Neutral stimulus |
an event or signal that causes no reflexive automatic response |
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Conditioned stimulus |
A learned signal that predicts another stimulus is about to occur |
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Higher order conditioning |
learning to associate a new, neutral stimulus with an already learned conditioned stimulus and conditioned response |
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Extinction |
the absence of a learned behavior |
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Spontaneous recovery |
after a rest the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response |
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Resistance to extinction |
Associations that are difficult to unlearn |
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Generalization |
Learning to respond to stimuli similar to the one experienced |
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Discrimination |
Learning to see the difference between two similar stimuli |
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Flooding |
A therapy to treat phobias based on intense exposure to the feared stimulus |
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Systematic desensitization |
treatment for phobia that practices relaxation to progressively more feared stimuli |
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Primary reinforcer |
A reward that provides basic needs |
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secondary (conditioned) reinforce |
A reward that can be exchanged for ones meeting basic needs |
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Bandura's Basic Processes |
1. attention 2. retention 3. reproduction 4. motivation |
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Mirror neurons |
Neurons in the frontal lobe that respond to motor behavior in oneself and in others |
