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Chapter 6: What is Learning? Flashcards

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reflex

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motor/neural rxn tp specific stimulus in environment
- flinching/blinking when light flashed in eyes

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instinct

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innate beh triggered by broader rnage of events liek aging, changing of seasons
- survival instinct/taking care of babies/birds flying south for winter

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learning

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relatively permanent change in beh (or beh potential) caused by experience

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associative learning (CONDITIONING)

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learning that 2 events occur together

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classical conditioning

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learning to associate 2 stimuli and anticipate events

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stimulus

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any event in the environment that produces a response
- ex: hearing jaws song and thinking a shark will kill you

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operant conditioning

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learning to associate a beh w/ a consequence (outcome)
- study=do well; hurt someone-guilty

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Classical conditioning

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Major I major influence on behaviorism; discovered by Ivan Pavlov; it’s a process that occurs to associations between environmental stimulus and naturally occurring stimulus

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What are the assumptions about behaviorism?

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Learning occurs through interactions with the environment; environment, shapes behavior; internal mental state, such as thoughts, feelings, and emotions, as useless and explaining behavior 

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Respondent behavior

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Occurs as an automatic response to a stimulus

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Neutral

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Doesn’t lead to any behavior before conditioning

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unconditioned stimulus UCS

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Automatically triggers response
ex: food

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Unconditioned response UCR

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Unlearned response to unconditioned stimulus
ex: drooling

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conditioned stimulus CS

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previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated w/ US, triggering CR
ex: bell

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conditioned response CR

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learned response to previously neutral stimulus
ex: drool

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conditioned response =

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learned (not natural)

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uncomditioned response =

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automatic

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acquisition

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linking neutral stimulus (bell w/ food) with US; eventually becomes CS
- the timing of the CS has a HUGE effect on whether or not acquision happens

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forward conditioning

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fastest learning
- CS (bell) presented before US (food)
- CS acts as signal that US is coming

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backward conditioning

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slower learning
- US (food) presented before CS (bell)
- too involved w/ US to notice CS

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taste aversion

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eating something and becoming sick; do not want to eat it again later for some time

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single-trial learning

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only takes one time/pairing

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extinction

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CR (drool) decreases/disappears when CS (bell) no longer paired w/ US (food)
- ex: bell, no food

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spontaneous recovery (the drool)

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reappearance of CR after a pause following extinction
- CR not totally gone, just dormant but no longer useful

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stimulus discrimination

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diff b/w CS and other stimuli; not pair w/ US
- ex: horrified of roaches, but not beetles

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stimulus generalization

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stimuli similar to CS (bell) can provoke CR (drool)
- ex: shape of chocolate is important!

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habituation

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decrease in responsiveness after repeated presentation of stimuli
- ex: a town that smells strange but stops being so noticeable after a while of being there

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highly unethical study

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one that would NOT be repeated today

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little albert study

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  • shown a white rat/not scared of it
  • then made a loud noise behind his head which scared him/made him cry
  • they repeated this multiple times
  • albert now scared of all white, furry objects
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higher-order (second order-conditioning)

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pairing a new neutral stimulus w/ conditioned stimulus

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operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)

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process where a response becomes more/less likely to occur depending on its consequences
- coined by behaviorist BF Skinner (Skinnerian conditioning)

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operant

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any active beh that operates on environment to generate consequences

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(Thorndike’s) law of effect

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beh followed by consequence we want likely to be repeated
- what one person finds reinforcing might not work for another
- ex: hugging 5 year old vs hugging 15 year old

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if the beh increased after the consequence …..

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it was a reinforcer

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positive (adding) reinforcement

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adding something they want after beh
ex: candy for cleaning

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negative (subtracting) reinforcement

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removing something they dont want after beh
ex: annoying sound in car goes away after seatbelt is put on

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punishment

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any consequence that decreases frequency of beh

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postive punishment

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adding something they dont want to decrease beh over time
ex: lecture kid not to be bad

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negative punishment

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taking away something they like to decrease beh
ex: no videogames for bad beh

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punishment must be applies when?

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immediately

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physical punishment

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no permanant changes; only says what to do; produces fear; can create violent kids

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shaping

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guiding beh closer and closer to approximations of beh you want to see

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primary reinforcers

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unlearned; not natural
ex: basic survival needs

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secondary (conditioned) reinforcers

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have to learn to like them
ex: we learn to like money
ex: sometimes animal trainers use clickers as 2nd reinforceres to make sure primary reinforcement doesnt become less effective

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immediate reinforcers

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occur immediately after beh + is most effective
ex: vending machine (immediately get snack)

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delayed reinforcers

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occur after a delay
ex: working out (results come later)

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reinforcement schedule

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rule stating which instances of a beh will be reinforced

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two types of reinforcement schedules

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continous reinforcement and partial reinforcement

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continuous reinforcement

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desired beh is reinforced every single time it occurs (best used during initial stages of learning to create a strong association b/w beh and response)
ex: paying students $5 to come to class

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partial reinforcement

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response is reinforced only part of the time (slower, but more resistant to extinction)
ex: randomly giving $5 to come to class

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fixed

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predictable

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variable

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unpredictable

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ratio

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of times you exhibit beh (beh-based)

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interval

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amount of time has pssed (time-based)(doesn’t rely/worry about ratio)

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fixed ratio schedules

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beh reinforced after a specified # of responses (produces high, steady rate of responding)
ex: allowance after mowing lawn 3 times

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variable-ratio schedules

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beh reinforced after unpredictable # of responses (high, steady rate of responding)
ex: gambling, the lottery

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fixed-interval schedules

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beh reinforced after specified amount of time has passed
(high amounts of responding at end of interval, but slower repsonding immediately after the delivery of the reinforcer)
ex: kids are good around christmas for santa claus, but start bad beh up again after its over

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variable-interval schedules

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beh reinforced after unpredictable amount of time has passed
(produces slow, steady rate of response)
ex: boss who shows up randomly to check on you

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observational learning

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learning by observing others
ex: when kids saw adult act violent w/ bobo doll in experiment, they acted violent when it was their turn to play

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models

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ppl. deomonstrate/explain beh

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live model

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person demonstrating/acting out beh w/ you there
ex: yoga instructor teaching a class

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verbal model

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desciption/explanation of beh w/ you there
ex: someone telling you about the diff. beh in class

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symbolic model

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(NO interaction) real/fictional characters display beh in books/films/TV/online media
ex: watching YouTube vid on how to cook

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latent learning

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not reflected in an immediate beh change
ex: we know to stop/drop/roll is we catch on fire, but its not relevant now since im not on fire

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