Behaviorism And Conditioning Flashcards
Conditioning
Learning basic processes that underline and can explain
Reductionistic
Boil everything down to one simple thing
Empiricist
Learned or acquired through experience
Nomothetic
Everyone is the same
Respondent vs operant
r-automatic or involuntary reflexive
O-voluntary or spontaneous
Behaviorist treating their emotions
Believed to be reflexes from the world I should respond due to my environment
Four conditioning goals
Develop or learn a new behavior (acquisition)
Eliminate in undesirable behavior(extinction)
Responds differently in different conditions or situations (discrimination)
Preform a sequence of behaviors in the proper order (chaining)
Stimuli versus responses
S: something that happens to you environment
r:something you do any behavior
Condition vs unconditional
Con: learned; cultural
Uncon: biologically programmed
Response consequence vs discriminative stimuli
Rc: after behavior
Ds: before behavior
Respondent acquisition
s-stimuli r-respondent behavior Us-unconditioned stimulus Ur-unconditioned response Cs-conditioned stimulus Cr-conditioned response
Operant acquisition
r Learned or conditioned R unconditioned rt Learned to like r- learned to dislike Rt born to like R- born to dislike
Extinction
Get rid of unwanted outside stimulus
Countercondition
Replace bad habit with incompatible behavior
