Psych Ch 6

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_______ believe that psychologists should study only ______ and _________ behaviors, not mental processes

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Behavorists, Observable, measurable

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_______ behavorists deny that hunger, fear or any other internal, private event causes behavior

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Radical

Front 3

__________ ws one of the founders of behavorism and believed that the enviroment controls practically all aspects of behavior

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John B Watson

Front 4

The most influential radical behavorist was ________.

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B F Skinner

Front 5

A(n) ________ reflex is an automatic connection between a stimulus such as food and a response such as salivation

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Unconditioned

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Stimulus _______ is the extension of a conditioned response from a training stimulus to a similar stimuls

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generalization

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the russian psychologist _______ first described the principles of classical conditioning

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Pavlov

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the process that establishes or strengthens a conditioned response is known as ________.

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acquisition

Front 9

a stimulus that indicates which response is appropriate or inappropriate is called _______.

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Discriminative stimulus

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________ refers to a temporary return of an extinguished response after a delay.

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spontaneous recovery

Front 11

________ _________ occurs when users of certain drugs experience progessively weaker effects after taking the drugs repeatedly.

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Drug Tolerance

Front 12

any event that decreases the probability of a response, such as administering a painful electric shock, is _________.

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Punishment

Front 13

rules or procedures for the delivery of reinforcement are known as ________ of reinforcement.

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Schedules

Front 14

The _______ principle states that " The opportunity to engage in frequentbehavior (such as talking with your friends) wukk be a reinforcer for any less- frequent behavior (such as studying).

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Premack

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Skinner developed a technique called ________ for esablishing a new response by reinforcing successive approximations to it.

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shaping

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a _______ is any event that increases the future probability that a response will occur.

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reinforcement

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instrumental or ________ conditioning is the process of changing behavior by following a response with a reinforcement

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operant

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If responses stop producing reinforcements _______ will occur.

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extinction

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the ability of a stimulus to encourage some responses and discourage others is known as ________ ______.

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Stimulus Control