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Chapter 4-6 Flashcards

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What is pavlovian/classical conditioning?

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Pairing of a biological stimulus with a neutral one……..dog learn to associate bell with food

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What is conditioned emotional response?

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The learned emotional reactions like love hate disgust

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How can a phobia be learned the classical conditioning?

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You can show someone an item and scare them every time the item I shown

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What us counterconditining?

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The use of conditioning to reverse unwanted effects of previous conditioning

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What is exposure therapy?

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Gradually exposing the person to their fear

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What is systematic desensitization?

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Psychologist has you list things you fear….then Psychologist describes your feared scenario and tries to get the persons to relax….causing them to associate their once fear with relaxation

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What is aversion therapy?

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Making clients conditoned stimulus paired with an unpleasant one….shown stimulus they like along with some form of discomfort ….used on pedophiles

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What is conditoned taste aversion?

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When a animal pairs a food with being toxic….usually due to animal experiencing adverse affects after consumption

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What is a primary reinforcer?

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Things that occur naturally and dont require conditoning…..sex….food….pleasure

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What is a secondary reinforcer?

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A learned thing such as money….grades…..tokens

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What is a positive reinforcement?

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When the stimulus is presented and increases behavior

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What is negative reinforcement?

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The removal of a something to get a response

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What are natural reinforcers?

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Events that follow a behavior….brush teeth equals clean mouth…..you walk you move…pedal bike you move…

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What is contrived reinforcer?

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Events that provided to make a certain behavior happen…..parent gives child cookie and sounds it out…boss gives bonuses

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What are motivating operators?

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Anything that changes effectiveness of consequences….the two kinds are establishing and abolishing operations

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What is abolishing operations?

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Decreases value of reinforcer…..feed the person being tested then trying to use food as a reinforcer…

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What is dopamine?

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A neurotransmitter that is used during things we find enjoyable

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What is the reward pathway?

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Part of brian that controls behavior and memory….can release dopamine

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What is drive recution theory?

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Says we are born with natural drives…..when the drives are satisfied you loose drive to achieve those goals

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What is relative value theory/ premack principle?

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You will do something because of its value to you

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What is response deprivation theory?

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Behavior becomes reinforcing when withheld from normal use

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Two process theory?

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Say two kinds of learning experiences are involved in avoidance learning

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What is shaping?

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Proccess of reinforcing the animal as it gets closer and closer to desired behavior

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What is the behavior chain?

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An even that has units of behavior in sequence

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What is a forward chaining?

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Doing the task and starting at step one

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What is a forward chaining?

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Doing the task and starting at step one

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What is reverse changing?

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Starting at the desired behavior and working to the start

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What is superstitious behavior?

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Any behavior that is performed repeatedly event though it doesn’t produce desired response

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What is learned helplessness

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When being has tried many times to escape and failed…even when given a open opportunity they won’t take it

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What is learning?

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A change In behavior due to experience

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What is operant conditioning?

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Learning proccess where a behavior is modified through reinforcement and punishment

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What is higher order conditioning.?

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Happens when a once ns turns to a cs….then you pair the cs with a ns….creating the cs into the reinforcer

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What is establishing operations?

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Increase the value of reinforcer….take away food person will want food

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