Chapter 8- First Half

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Associative Learning

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Linking two events that occur close together

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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior due to experience

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Classical Conditioning

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A type of learning in which an organism associates a stimuli

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Behaviorism

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View that psychology should be objective science and studies behavior without reference to mental process

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Ivan Pavlov

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Explored classical conditioning, looked for underlying reason for learning

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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A condition that naturally automatically triggers a response

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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Unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus, such as saliva production when food is in the mouth

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Neutral Stimulus

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Stimulus that does not draw out any response

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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Originally irrelevant stimulus, then associated with US comes to trigger a conditioned response

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

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Acquisition

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Turning a neutral stimulus into a conditioned stimulus, thus drawing out a conditioned response

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Extinction

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Diminishing of a conditioned response

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Spontaneous Recovery

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The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

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Generalization

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The tendency for similar stimuli to trigger the same response

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Discrimination

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The learned ability to distinguished one stimuli from another

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John Garcia

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Associated with taste aversion

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Taste Aversion

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Acquisition only takes one time because the response is so strong

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Operant Conditioning

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Type of learning, behavior is strengthened if reinforced or diminished if punished

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Respondent Behaviorb

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occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

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Operant Behavior

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operates on the environment producing a consequence

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B.F. Skinner

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Modern behaviorism’s most influential and controversial figure

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Edward L. Throndlike

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Developed the law of effect

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Law of effect

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Rewarded behavior is likely to reoccur

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Operant chamber

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Skinner box; contains a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a reinforcer

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Shaping

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Using reinforcers to guide behavior towards closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior