Behaviorism

Question 1

Operant conditioning

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Explains how consequences lead to change in voluntary behavior through reinforcement and punishment

Question 2

Classical Conditioning

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Involves associating an unconditioned stimulus with a neutral stimulus to turn it into a conditioned stimulus

Question 3

Stimulus

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Some environmental event that we hear, see, feel, smell or taste

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Neutral Stimulus

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Stimulus with no naturally wired response (ringing the bell at the start)

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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Stimulus that leads to an automatic response (the meat)

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Conditioned Stimulus

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Stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response (ringing the bell after a while)

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Response

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Something that we do after detecting a stimulus

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Unconditioned Response

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Caused by the stimulus naturally (dog salivating at the meat)

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Conditioned Response

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Learned over time (dog salivating at the bell)

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Forward Long-Delay Training

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Bell than meat after a sizable wait

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Forward Short-Delay Training

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Bell then meat, easiest to learn with

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Simultaneous Training

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Bell and meat

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Backwards Training

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Meat then bell

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Habituation

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Occurs when there is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations; getting used to something

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Flooding

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When we try to use habituation to weaken an undesired response

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Systematic Desensitization

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Occurs when we start out with an easy stimulus and slowly work our way up to the real one

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Counter-conditioning

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The goal is to replace the undesired response by replacing the association (paying someone $100 every time they saw a spider)

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Aversion Therapy

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When we try to counter-condition away a positive response with an aversive stimulus

Question 19

Taste Aversion

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Learning to avoid a food that makes you sick–is intriguing to scientists because it has an immediate strong association that resists aversion, can take hold even after a long time between stimulus and response, and is a very selective association (don’t care about other environmental stimuli)

Question 20

Garcia Effect

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The tendency to blame food for illness, even if the food had nothing to do with the illness

Question 21

Law of Effect

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A behavior is more likely to occur if it leads to a desirable effect - thus, even very complicated behavior can be explained in terms of “trial and error” learning rather than intelligent insight

Question 22

Reinforcers

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Stimuli animals want to receive

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Punishers

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Stimuli animals want to avoid

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Primary Reinforcers

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Things that are naturally desirable (food, warmth, sexual pleasure)

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Primary Punishers

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Things that are naturally aversive (bright lights, loud noises)

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Secondary Reinforcers

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Things we've learned to want because they are associated with positive things (dollar bills, audience applause)

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Secondary Punishers

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Things we've learned to want because they are associated with negative things (audience booing, someone shaking their head)

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Positive Reinforcement

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Presenting a desired stimulus after a desired behavior has occurred with the goal of increasing that behavior (parent gives you more screen time for cleaning your room)

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Negative Reinforcement

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Removing an aversive stimulus after a desired behavior has occurred (parent nags until you clean your room)

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Positive Punishment

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Presenting an aversive stimulus after an undesired behavior has occurred with the goal of decreasing that behavior (parent makes you eat more vegetables for not cleaning your room)

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Negative Punishment

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Removing a desired stimulus after an undesired behavior has occurred (parent takes your phone for not cleaning your room)

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Continuous Reinforcement Schedules

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You are reinforced or punished every single time the behavior occurs (Dog gets a treat when it sits down, you burn your finger touching a stove) - Behaviors enforced this way are most likely to go away without reinforcement

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Partial Reinforcement Schedules

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Reinforcements or punishments occur only part of the time

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Fixed ratio (partial reinforcement)

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Schedule of reinforcement (Getting paid for a set number of items you produce/sell) - Produce high rates of responding that decline immediately after the reinforcer is received (Post-reinforcement pause)

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Fixed interval (partial reinforcement)

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Wait a specified period of time after completing the correct response before reinforcement (An employee receives a paycheck every two weeks for their job) - Produce overall response rates that are low and increase as time for reinforcement gets closer (scalloped response)

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Variable ratio (partial reinforcement)

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A response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses (Slot machine) - Produce high and steady rates of responding

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Variable interval (partial reinforcement)

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Waiting an unpredictable amount of time (Waiting for an elevator) - Produce steady rates of responding (Hitting the button over and over when you’re in a rush)

Question 38

Extinction

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The process of unlearning a behavior when reinforcement is no longer associated with it (Dog stops scratching at the door when you stop getting up to let it out)

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Extinction Burst

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Sudden increase in the behavior (Dog starts scratching the shit out of the door cause it worked before which means it’ll work if it keeps trying) - We are especially likely to see this if the behavior was previously reinforced on a variable schedule and if reinforcement is suddenly removed

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Spontaneous Recovery

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At some point after a behavior has gone through extinction and stopped, it may suddenly reappear for a bit and then go away again - Can be explained as intelligent animals wanting to see if the “problem” was only temporary

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Method of facilitating extinction

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Replace the behavior with something else that we want the animal to do (Rewarding the dog for sitting calmly)

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Learned Helplessness

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Occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so