Chapter 5 Flashcards
Define Learning
relatively permanent change in behavior or mental process which results from experience rather than from maturation
learning requires what?
change in the way an organism behaves
What happens in the brain when learning occurs?
physically changed to record what has been learned
Define habituation
tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information
Define Mere Exposure effect
where you develop a preference for something just from being exposed to it more
Define behavioral learning
teaching someone a certain behavior that has to be learned
Define stimulus
sensory event that brings about a response
Define response
behavior that occurs because it was triggered by a stimulus
Define unconditioned response
a response that does not have to be learned
define conditioned response
response that comes from experience
Study classical conditioning chart
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Define conditional emotional response (CER)
bring about physical change
involuntary
Define generalization
scared of something for some reason, but you are also scared of stuff that looks similar.
Little Albert experiment demonstrates what?
Generalization
Define discrimination
Only respond to something specific
Define exttiincion
when something that was conditioned gets unconditioned
Define Spontaneous recovery
when an extinct condition all of a sudden reappears
Define biological preparedness
brain is preprogrammed to do or don’t do some conditions
It is easy to learn and hard to unlearn and vice versas?
biological preparedness
What point of view is biological preparedness
evolutionary
Define vicarious conditioning
becoming classically conditioning by watching someone else respond to a stimulus
Define taste aversion
when you avoid a liquid or food that made you sick. sometimes you don’t realize you do this
Define voluntary behavior
reactions you have control over
What is the operant conditioning Paradigm?
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