Behavioral science 3.1 Flashcards
Learning stimulus
Anything to which an organism can respond including sensory inputs
Habituation
Decreased response due to repeated exposure to a stimulus
Dishabituation
Recovery of the response that has been suppressed due to habituation
Associative learning
The pairing or association between stimuli and behavior
Classical conditioning
Uses instinctual responses to create an association between two unrelated stimuli (pavlovs dog)
Unconditioned stimulus
A stimulus that brings about a reflexive response
Unconditioned response
An innate or a reflexive response
Neutral stimuli
Do not produce a reflexive response. Can be referred to as signaling stimuli and can be used in classical conditioning for a new association
Conditioned stimulus
A neutral stimulus trained to elicit a certain reaction
Conditioned response
Reflexive response that has been trained to be elicited by the condition stimulus
Spontaneous recovery
When a previously lost conditioned response is presented weakly
Generalization
A stimulus is similar enough it can elicit the same response
Discrimination
Ability to distinguish between two different stimuli and present two different responses
Operant conditioning
Conditioning to increase the frequency of voluntary behaviors
Positive reinforcement
A good stimulus to continue a certain behavior