Chapter 7 Flashcards
The approach where the study of behavior and how the environment influences it, is known as ____
Behaviorism
Define: classical conditioning
Learning that involves associations between things/events in the environment and an organisms response
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The father of classical conditioning
The unconditioned stimulus…
Does not have to be learned
The conditioned stimulus is…
paired with the US enough times to cause the same response
Define: extinction
The weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response
Define: spontaneous recovery
The reappearance of a learned response after extinction
When a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus.
Higher-order conditioning
Define: stimulus generalization
When you respond to a stimulus that resembles another
Define: stimulus discrimination
When you respond differently to two similar stimuli
Who is John B. Watson?
The father of behaviorism.
Watson is famous for saying…
That everyone has a blank slate and the environment writes on it
Define: operant conditioning
When a response becomes more or less likely to happen in the future depending on the consequence
Reinforcement is a stimulus which ___________ the behavior
Strengthens
Punishment is when a stimulus is ________ to happen
Less likely
