Chapter 6: Learning

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Habituation

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process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli; form of learning

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Sensitization

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responding more strongly over time to a repeated stimulus – usually a dangerous or annoying stimulus

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Conditioning

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forming associations between stimuli

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Classical conditioning (or Pavlovian conditioning)

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process of association/form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response.
works on autonomic system

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Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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stimulus that elicits an automatic response

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Neutral stimulus (NS)

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Conditioned stimulus (CS)

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a previously neutral stimulus (NS) that comes to elicit a conditioned response (CR) as a result of association with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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Unconditioned response (UCR)

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Question 9

Conditioned response (CR)

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Acquisition

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Question 11

Extinction

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Question 12

renewal effect

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Question 13

phobias

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Question 14

stimulus generalization

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stimulus discrimination

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spontaneous recovery

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Higher-order conditioning

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Latent inhibition

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Question 19

Little Albert

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Operant conditioning

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voluntary (behavior, reinforcement)

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reinforcement

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punishment

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“negative” reinforcement/punishment

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“positive” reinforcement/punishment

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Law of effect

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S-R psychology

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S-O-R psychology

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O stands for organism -- there thought and cognition involved

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Skinner box

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operant chamber

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Insight

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discriminative stimulus

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Question 31

schedule of reinforcement

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continuous reinforcement

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Partial reinforcement

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intermittent reinforcement

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Shaping

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animal training example

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fading

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related to shaping

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chaining

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secondary reinforcers

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token

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primary reinforcers

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Question 39

two-process theory

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learning history

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Question 41

cognitive conditioning

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Latent learning

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Question 43

competence vs. performance

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cognitive maps

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Observational learning

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Mirror neurons

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Question 47

"A-ha!" reaction

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insight learning

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Conditioned taste aversions

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Question 49

Preparedess

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Question 50

Instinctive drift

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sleep-assisted learning

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Accelerated learning

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Discovery learning

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Question 54

Learning styles

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