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43 Cards in this Set
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a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
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Learning
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an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
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Habituation
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learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning)
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Associative Learning
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a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
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Classical Conditioning
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the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not (2)
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Behaviorism
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in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth
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Unconditioned Response (UR)
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in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-- naturally and automatically-- triggers a response
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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
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in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS).
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Conditioned Response (CR)
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in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response
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Acquisition
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a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.
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Higher-order Conditioning
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the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer enforced.
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Extinction
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the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
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Spontaneous Recovery
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the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
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Generalization
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in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
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Discrimination
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the helplessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid aversive events
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Learned Helplessness
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behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus
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Respondent Behavior
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type of learning in which behavior is strengthen if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
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Operant Conditioning
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Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
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Law of Effect
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in operant conditioning research, a chamber, also known as a Skinner Box, containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain food or water reinforcer; attached devices record the animals rate of bar pressing or key pecking.
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Operant Chamber
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an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
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Shaping
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in operant conditioning, a stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement
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Discriminative Stimulus
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in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows
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Reinforcer
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increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli, such as food.
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Positive Reinforcement
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increases behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli, such as shock.
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Negative Reinforcement
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an innately reinforcer stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need.
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Primary Reinforcer
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a stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer; also known as a secondary reinforcer
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Conditioned Reinforcer
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reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs
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Continuous Reinforcement
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reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction that does continuous reinforcement
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Partial Reinforcement
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in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specific number of responses
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Fixed-Ratio Schedule
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in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses.
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Variable-Ratio Schedule
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in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specific time has elapsed.
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Fixed-Interval Schedule
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in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals.
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Variable-Interval Schedule
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an event that decreases the behavior that it follows
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Punishment
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a mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
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Cognitive Map
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learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
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Latent Learning
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a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
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Insight
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a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake
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Intrinsic Motivation
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a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
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Extrinsic Motivation
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learning by observing others.
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Observational Learning
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the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
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Modeling
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frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another do so
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Mirror Neutrons
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positive, constructive, helpful behavior
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Prosocial Behavior
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