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Acquisition

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First time the CR happens as a result of the CA

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Conditioned response

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Learned, what now triggers this behavior

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Generalization

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Have a CR to a similar stimulus

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Vicarious classical conditioning

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Being classically conditioned by someone else

Ex: your mom hates olives so you hate olives

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Unconditioned Response

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Physical reaction

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Conditioned stimulus

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Learned, what now triggers the behavior

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Discrimination

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Have a CR only to a specific stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Natural reaction

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Extinction

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Overtime we lose the CR following the CS

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Classical conditioning

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Learned associations, involuntary behavior

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Neutral stimulus

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At first there is no response, after training there is a stimulus

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Spontaneous recovery

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The CR suddenly returns after it had previously become extinct

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Law of effect

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The more we reinforce a behavior the more it will occur

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Operant chamber

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Chamber with the birds where if they answer a question right or do a certain action they are rewarded with food or water

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Positive punishment

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Adding something unwanted to decrease a behavior

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Reinforcement

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Increases the chance that a behavior will happen again in the future

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Primary reinforcer

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A reinforcer that you need to survive

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Negative punishment

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Take away something that is wanted to decrease the behavior

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Secondary reinforcer

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Something that we like or enjoy (not a necessity)

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Positive reinforcement

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Giving something wanted to increase the behavior (rewarding)

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Operant conditioning

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A voluntary action and focuses on rewards and punishments

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Negative reinforcement

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Taking away something unwanted to increase the behavior

Ex: seatbelt ding

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Punishment

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Main goal of this is to decrease a behavior

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Continuous reinforcement

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A type of reinforcement where you are constantly rewarded for doing something

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Partial reinforcement

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You are only rewarded sometimes as opposed to all the time

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Variable interval

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Changing amount of time (unknown)

Ex: fishing

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Fixed ratio

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Set amount of times that you have to repeat an action

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Variable ratio schedule

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Changing amount of repetitions between reinforcement

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Fixed interval

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Rewarding after a set amount of time

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Fixed

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Stays the same

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Variable

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Changes

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Interval

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Period of time

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Ratio

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Amount of repetitions

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Mirror neurons

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Located in motor cortex, person raises their hand chimp doesn’t but a thing in their brain goes off that they are

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Observational learning

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Learning by watching something or someone else do that certain thing

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Latent learning

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Learning something without a reward and then being able to perform for a reward

Ex: mice in the maze

Also know as background learning

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Insight

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Think about a problem overtime and then suddenly the solution comes to you

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Pavlov

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CC with dogs

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Watson

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CC with baby Albert

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Garcia

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CC taste aversion

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Thorndike

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OC law of effect

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Skinner

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OC with positive reinforcement with rats and pigeons (operant chamber)

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Tolman

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Observational and social learning

Latent learning (cognitive)

Ex: maze with rats

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Bandura

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Observational and social learning

BoBo doll (social and observational learning)

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Behaviorism

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The theory that behaviors can be explained using conditioning, and psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns

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Learning

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Lasting change in behavior that is a result of experience

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Habituation

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Decrease in a stimulus after being repeatedly exposed to it

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Associative learning

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CC and OC

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Counter-Conditioning

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Turns an unwanted behavior into a wanted behavior

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Shaping

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Successive approximations toward a target behavior are reinforced

SKINNER

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Higher-Order Conditioning

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Make a stimulus meaningful, then use that stimulus as a basis of learning new stimuli

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Token economy

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Get tokens with no monetary value, then these tokens are exchanged for something with value.

Ex: Red tickets, Chuck E Cheese

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Behavior modification

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Change in behavior through OC

PR NR PP NP

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Delayed reinforcer

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A time delay between the desired response of an organism and the delivery of a reward

Ex: a diet

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Learned helplessness

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Forced to bear a painful stimuli, becomes unavoidable and you just accept it

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Modeling

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Learning by imitation

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Cognitive map

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A mental representation where you can recall and decode info about your day to day life

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Intrinsic motivation

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Doing something because you enjoy it

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Extrinsic motivation

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Doing something for a reward

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