AP psychology chapter 6 Flashcards
Learning
Long-lasting changes in behavior resulting from experiences.
Ivan Pavlov
Discovered classical conditioning.
Classical conditioning
Learning to associate neutral stimuli with stimuli that produce reflexive/involuntary responses.
Unconditioned stimuli
The original, reflexive stimulus.
Unconditioned response
The involuntary response to the US.
Conditioned stimulus
When the neutral stimulus becomes reflexive.
Conditioned response
Response to conditioned stimulus.
Pavlovian Paradigm
Food = US, which elicits salivating (UR), bell = neutral stimuli, becomes CS once it elicits salivation (CR).
Acquisition
Once there is a response to the CS without presentation of the US.
Delayed conditioning
In which the CS is presented before the US, but the US is introduced while the CS is still evident. Most effective.
Trace conditioning
The presentation of the CS, followed by a short break, followed by the US.
Simultaneous conditioning
CS and US are presented at the same time.
Backward conditioning.
US is presented first followed by CS.
Extinction.
Unlearning a behavior, when the CS no longer elicits a CR.
Spontaneous recovery.
After extinction and no further training of animals has taken place, response briefly reappears upon presentation of CS.
Generalization
Tendency to respond to similar CS’s.
Discrimination
To tell the difference between various stimuli.
John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner
Conditioned a small boy named Albert to fear a white rat.
Aversive conditioning
An unpleasant stimulus is paired with an undesired behavior to get rid of it.
Second order/higher order conditioning
A CS is able to elicit a CR without ever being associated with the US, aka using a CS as a US to condition the response to a new stimulus.
Learned taste aversion
Biologically prepared for it, one develops an aversion to food that creates nausea.
John Garcia and Robert Koelling
Performed an experiment on rats illustrating biological preparedness in classical conditioning (linking loud noise with shock and unusual tastes to nausea).
Operant conditioning
A kind of classical conditioning based on the association of consequences with behavior.
Edwar Thorndike
Created the law of effect.
Law of effect
If consequences are pleasant, then the stimulus-response connection strengthens and behavior becomes more likely, if consequences unpleasant, connection weakens. Described as instrumental learning.