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Chapter 6: Learning Flashcards

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What is Classical Conditioning?

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is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response originally evoked by another stimulus.

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Who pioneered Classical Conditioning?

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Ivan Pavlov, got dogs to salivate when a tone was presented

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What is the main purpose of classical conditioning?

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regulates involuntary, reflexive responses.

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What are some examples for Classical Conditioning?

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emotional responses, such as fears and physiological responses such as immunosuppression and sexual arousal.

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Responses controlled through classical conditioning are said to?

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be elicited

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Classical Conditioning begins with?

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  • unconditioned stimulus (UCS) that elicits an unconditioned response (UCR)
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What is it called before any stimulus is added?

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Neutral Stimulus

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What happens when the NS is paired with the UCS?

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it becomes a CS that elicits a conditioned response (CR)

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What occurs when the CS and UCS are paired, gradually resulting in a CR?

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Acquisition

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What does Acquisition mean?

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Acquisition is a formation of a conditioned response tendency.

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What occurs when a CS is repeatedly presented alone until it no longer elicits a CR?

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Extinction

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What does extinction mean?

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is the gradual weakening of a conditioned response tendency.

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What is spontaneous recovery?

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the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of non-exposure to the CS.

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What is generalization?

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occurs when an organism responds to new stimuli besides the original stimulus.

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When a CR is elicited by a new stimulus that resembles the original CS, as in Watson and Rayner’s study of Little Albert.

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Generalization

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When a CR is not elicited by a new stimulus that resembles the original CS.

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Discrimination

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What is discrimination?

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occurs when an organism does not respond to other stimuli that resemble the original stimulus.

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What is High-order Conditioning?

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occurs when a CS functions as if it were a US.

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What is Operant Conditioning?

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responses come to be controlled by their consequences.

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Who pioneered operant conditioning?

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B.F Skinner, who showed rats and pigeons tend to repeat responses that are followed by favorable outcomes.

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What does Operant Conditioning mainly do?

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regulates voluntary, spontaneous responses.

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What are some examples of Operant Conditioning?

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studying, going to work, telling jokes, asking someone out, and gambling.

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When does reinforcement occur?

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When an event following a response increases an organism’s tendency to make that response.

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Responses controlled through operant conditioning are said to be?

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emitted

25
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What is a Skinner box?

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demonstrations of O.C typically occur in a skinner box, where an animals reinforcement is controlled.

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What key dependents variables is the animals response rate?

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monitored by a cumulative recorder, with results portrayed in graphs.

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What is Acquisition in Operant Conditioning?

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occurs when a response gradually increases due to contingent reinforcement.

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Acquisition may involve shaping?

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the reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of the desired response.

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When does extinction occur in O.C?

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when responding gradually slows and stops after reinforcement is terminated.

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When does generalization happen in O.C?

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occurs when responding increases in the presence of a stimulus that resembles the original discriminative stimulus.

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When does discrimination occur in O.C?

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occurs when responding does not increase in the presence of a stimulus that resembles the original discriminative stimulus.

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What is the primary reinforcers?

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inherently reinforcing, whereas secondary reinforcers develop through learning.

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When does intermittent reinforcement occur?

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When a response is reinforced only some of the time.

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What is the ratio schedules?

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the reinforcer is given after a Fixed Response (FR) or Variable (VR) number of nonreinforced responses.

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What is in interval schedules?

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the reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed (FI) or variable (VI) time interval has elapsed.

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What tend to lead to higher response rates?

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Ratio schedules (FR and VR)

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What tends to yield more resistance to extinction?

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Variable Schedules (VR and VI)

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When does positive reinforcement occur?

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when a response is followed by the presentation of a rewarding stimulus.

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When does a Negative reinforcement occur?

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When a response is followed by the removal of an aversion stimulus.

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What are the key roles that play in negative reinforcement?

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escape learning and avoidance learning

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What are the key roles that play in negative reinforcement?

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escape learning and avoidance learning

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When does punishment occur?

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When an event following a response weakens the tendency to make that response.

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What did John Garcia find in recognizing biological constraints on learning?

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almost impossible to create some associations, whereas conditioned taste aversions are readily acquired in spite of long CS-UCS delays, which he attributed to evolutionary influences.

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When does preparedness appear?

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to explain why people acquire phobias to ancient sources of threat much more readily than to modern sources of threat.

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What did Tolman’s study find?

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learning can take place in the absence of reinforcement.

45
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What did Robert Rescorla show on the process of classical conditioning?

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the predictive value of a CS.

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