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18 Cards in this Set
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Operant conditioning
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the association of an organism's own actions with consequences; either reward or punishments
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respondent behavior
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automatic behavioral response to stimuli
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operant behavior
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behavior that operates on the environment, creating consequences
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B.F. skinner
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invented operant conditioning, did tests with rats, pigeons, push button, receive pellet
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Law of effect
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Thorndike's principal that rewarded behavior will likely continue and punished behavior will stop
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shaping
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the process by which reinforces guide an organism's behavior toward desired action
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successive approximations
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the rewarding of responses that are close to desired behavior, and ignoring all undesired responses
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discriminative stimulus
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stimulus that teaches organism what behavior will result in reward
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reinforcer
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anything that strengthens behavior
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positive reinforcement
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the giving of positive stimuli to strengthen behavior
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memes
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culturally defined was of being
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negative reinforcement
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the removal of painful/annoying stimuli to strengthen response
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primary reinforcer
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stimulus which draws its power from biological background; eating when hungry
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secondary/conditioned reinforcer
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stimulus which draws its reinforcing power from a primary reinforcer through its association
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continuous reinforcement
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reinforcing desired response every time it occurs
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partial/intermittent reinforcement
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reinforcing behavior some of the time; resists extinction better, but takes longer to train
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Seligmann
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idea of learned helplessness: dog with electrified bottom of cage
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operant discrimination
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the ability to correctly identify whether or not a stimulus should elicit a response
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