Ch. 6 - Learning Flashcards
Learning is any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to ___, and shapes… (4)
experience,
and shapes 1) all personal habits, 2) personality traits, 3) personal preferences, and 4) emotional responses
Conditioning is…
repeated pairing of unconditioned stimulus with neutral stimulus
Conditioning involves…
and if done correctly the ___ stimulus becomes the ___ stimulus
learning associations between events that occur in an organism’s environment,
and if done correctly the NEUTRAL stimulus becomes the CONDITIONED stimulus
Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which…
a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus
Classical conditioning manipulates ___ responses
The person connected to classical conditioning is…
INVOLUNTARY responses
Pavlov
In Pavlov's experiment the Unconditioned stimulus was: Unconditioned response was: Conditioned stimulus was: Conditioned response was:
Unconditioned stimulus- salivation
Unconditioned response- presentation of meat powder
Conditioned stimulus- the bell (once you ring the bell and the dog salivates it is no longer a neutral stimulus, it is conditioned)
Conditioned response- salivation (a.k.a. P’s “psychic reflex” or conditioned reflex)
Unconditioned response is an… that occurs…
unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning
Conditioned stimulus is a…
previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a response
Conditioned response is a…
and is characterized as…
A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning
Is characterized as reflexes said to be drawn forth because most of them are relatively automatic or involuntary
Classical connections are…
human beings connection/correlation to makers
Trial (in classical conditioning) consists of…
any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli
Basic processes in classical conditioning include: (2)
Acquisition and Extinction
Acquisition refers to the…
and depends on…
initial stage of learning a new response tendency
Depends on stimulus contiguity (occur together in time and space)
Extinction is the…
and is the consistent presentation of…
the gradual weakening or disappearance of a response tendency because the response is no longer followed by reinforcement.
Is the consistent presentation of the stimulus alone without the unconditioned stimulus
Stimulus generalization occurs when an organism…
and is… given…
responds to a new stimulus as if it were the original
Adaptive given that organisms rarely encounter the exact same stimulus more than once
The more similar the new stimuli are to the original CS the greater the likelihood of…
Which is generally how ___ develop
generalization.
Generally how panic disorders develop
Stimulus discrimination occurs when an organism has…
learned a response to specific stimulus does not respond in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus
The less similar the new stimuli are to the original CS the greater the likelihood of…
discrimination.
E.g. animals need to be able to discriminate from friend/foe or edible/poisonous food