Attitudes and Behaviour Change

Question 1

Acquisition

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• Is the process of developing a response to a neutral stimulus that turns into a conditioned stimulus

Question 2

Extinction

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• Is the process by which a conditioned responses disappears, and is no longer elicited by the conditioned stimuli.

Question 3

Spontaneous Recovery

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• Is the spontaneous recurrence of a conditioned response that has already undergone extinction

Question 4

Generalization

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• Is the process in which multiple stimuli elicit the same response
• Responding to stimulus that resembles another conditioned stimulus

Question 5

Stimulus and Response

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• Is anything that triggers a response
• If that stimulus is perceived and changes an observable action in the individual, some behavioural response, then we can say that learning has occurred.

Question 6

Ivan Pavlov

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• Conducted his famous experiments with dogs, bells and salivation
• He showed that we can learn through classical conditioning

Question 7

Ivan Pavlov

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• Conducted his famous experiments with dogs, bells and salivation
• He showed that we can learn through classical conditioning
• In these experiments, Pavlov trained dogs to associate a neutral stimulus like the sound of a bell ringing, with the unconditioned stimulus, the food at feeding time.
• The dogs would already salivate unconditionally at food, and pavlov introduced the sound of the bell at the same time.
• Eventually the dogs began to associate the bell with food, and ultimately, the conditioned stimulus of the bell, could trigger salvia production, a conditioned response even in the absence of food.

Question 8

Classical Conditioning

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• Associating a neutral stimulus to an involuntary response
• An unconditioned stimulus is something that provokes an innate, instinctual response, without effort.
• A neutral stimulus, causes no response relates to the unconditioned pair
• A conditioned stimulus should always be the formed neutral stimulus when associated with unconditioned stimulus triggers a conditioned response
  
  • This happens in the acquisition stage

Question 9

Discrimination

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The ability to discern between similar stimuli

Question 10

Extinction

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The fading of a conditioned stimulus, where the established connection between the unconditioned and the conditioned stimulus fades

Question 11

Spontaneous Recovery

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Occurs after a relationship between conditioned stimuli and response is over.

Question 12

Positive Reinforcement (Operant Conditioning)

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• Encouraging a behaviour is reinforcement.
• Adding a stimulus, makes it positive. This doesn’t have to be objectively good or pleasurable, it just means adding something.

Question 13

Negative Reinforcement

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• Still encouraging a behaviour, but removing something instead
  
  • Can be encouraging a child to eat vegetables by telling them they won’t have to clean up after dinner if they do so.

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Positive Punishment

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• Adding something as a consequence of another action
• Example, when a child is not listening, parents are ADDING their yelling as a punishment.

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Negative Punishment

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• Removing something as a punishment
• Example, parents remove child’s phone for not doing homework

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Escaping

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• Any response designed to move away from or eliminate an already present aversive stimulus.

Question 17

Avoiding

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• Occurs when a subject learns behaviour preventing the occurence of an aversive stimulus.

Question 18

Reinforcement Schedule

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1. Fixed Ratio
2. Fixed interval
3. Variable Ratio
4. Variable interval

Question 19

Fixed Ratio Schedule

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• a schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses.

Question 20

Fixed Interval Schedule

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• those where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.

Question 21

Variable Interval Schedule

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• when the reinforcement is provided after a random (unpredictable) amount of time has passes and following a specific behavior being performed.

Question 22

Variable Ratio Schedule

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• a partial schedule of reinforcement in which a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses.

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Latent Learning

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• Learning that reveals itself once a reward is provided, even is the true subconscious learning happens without any reward

Question 24

Problem Solving

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• Applying knowledge after latent learning

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Biological Process

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• Example, rewarding birds with food after a peaking behaviour works well for learning some tasks.

Question 26

Instinct drift

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• The tendency of some trained animals to revert back to instinctual behaviours.
• For example, a dog who does not bark when people come home starts barking at new people, as he may think that those are intruders.

Question 27

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