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Ch. 6 Learning Flashcards

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Is simple form of learning in which one stimulus comes to call forth the response that is usually associated with different stimulus

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Classical conditioning

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Something that produces a reaction

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Stimulus

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Russian physiologist who discovered that dogs can learn to associate one thing with another one food is involved

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Ivan Pavlov

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Learned avoidance of a particular food

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Taste aversion

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When organisms sometimes display responses that were extinguished earlier

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Spontaneous recovery

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The act of responding in the same ways to stimuli that seem to be similar even if the stimuli are not identical

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Generalization

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The active responding differently to stimuli that are not similar to each other

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Discrimination

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Method in which a person is exposed to a harmless stimulus until for your responses to that stimulus are extinguished

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Flooding

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One method of overcoming fears in which people are taught relaxation techniques

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Systematic desensitization

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When a pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one

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Counterconditioning

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Type of learning in which people learn to do certain things because of the results of what they do

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Operant conditioning

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The secret or weapon that was never built and it was developed through operant conditioning

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Project pigeon

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Process by which a stimulus increases the chances that the preceding behavior will occur again

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Reinforcement

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Reinforcers that function due to the biological makeup of the organism

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Primary. Reinforcers

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Reinforcers that initially acquire their value through being paired with established reinforcers

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Secondary reinforcers

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Reinforces that increase the frequency of the behavior they follow

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Positive reinforcers

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Reinforcers that increase the frequency of the behavior they follow when they are removed

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Negative

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The reinforcement of the behavior every time the behavior occurs

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Continuous reinforcement

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The reinforcement of behavior only some of the time

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Partial reinforcement

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The way of teaching complex behaviors in which one first reinforces small steps in the right direction

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Shaping

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The father behaviorism

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John B Watson

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What are the ABC’s of learning

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Antecedents
Behaviors
Consequences

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What was the idea of classical conditioning by Ivan Pavlov

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Stimulus elicits a response

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Elicits an unconditioned response natural thing that occurs unlearned

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Parent with an unconditioned stimulus elicits an unconditioned response it is while you are learning behavior

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Neutral stimulus

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Elicits a condition response it is what you have learned

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Conditioned stimulus

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When the NS and UCS are presented at the same time

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Simultaneous

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NS is presented then a delay then the UCS is presented than the NS is removed

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Delayed

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When the NS precedes the UCS

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Trace

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When the UCS is presented and then NS

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Backward

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View that learning occurs when stimulus provide information about the likelihood of the occurrence of other stimuli

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Contingency theory

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Stimulus lose ability to evoke learn responses because the events that had followed the stimulus no longer occur

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Extinction

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The reoccurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time

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Spontaneous recovery

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Procedure in which he previously neutral stimulus comes to elicit the response brought forth by conditioned stimulus

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Higher order conditioning

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The physiological and psychological reaction to an expected danger whether real or imagined

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Anxiety

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Period Of extreme anxiety and physical symptoms often reported to feel like a heart attack

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Panic attack

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An intense fear of a specific object or situation fear must significantly restrict our way of life

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Phobia

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Treatment technique where the client is exposed to gradually increasing anxiety provoking stimuli while relaxing

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Systematic desensitization

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Treatment involving the combination of behaviorism and cognitive therapy change the mindset and thought processes

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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What did Thorndyke formalize

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The law of effect

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First correct response after a set amount of time has passed is reinforced the time period Required is always the same

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Fixed interval

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Monkey see monkey do

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Modeling

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Get away with or are rewarded for violence

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Disinhibition

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Works the audience up watch the fans at a sporting event

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Increased arousal

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We become used to it desensitization

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Habituation

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Mediation arbitration negotiation

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Ways to resolve conflict without being violent

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