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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience

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Adaptability

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Our capacity to learn new behaviors that enables us to cope with changing circumstances

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Associative Learning

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Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning)

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Conditioning

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The process of learning associations

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Classical Conditioning (or Pavlovian/Respondent Conditioning)

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A type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus.

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Behaviorism

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The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research agree with (1) but not (2)

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers a response

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response.

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Acquisition

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The initial stage in classical conditioning; the phase associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response.
In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.

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Extinction

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The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) doesn’t follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.

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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, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

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Discrimination

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In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

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Operant Conditioning

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A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

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Respondent Behavior

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Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.
Skinner’s term for behavior learned through classical conditioning

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Operant Behavior

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Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences

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Law of Effect

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Edward Thorndike’s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely

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Operant Chamber (Skinner’s Box)

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A chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer, with attached devices to record the animal’s rate of bar pressing/key pecking. Used in operant conditioning research.

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Shaping

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An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

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Reinforcement

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Any event that strengthens, or increases the frequency of, a preceding response

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Reinforcer

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In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows

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Positive Reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli, such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.

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Negative Reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli, such as shock. A negative reinforcer is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response
(Negative reinforcement =/= punishment)

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Primary Reinforcer

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An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need

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Conditioned/Secondary Reinforcer

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A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer

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Continuous Reinforcement

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Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs

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Partial (Intermittent) Reinforcement

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Reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement

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Fixed-Ratio Schedule

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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses

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Variable-Ratio Schedule

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Provide reinforcers after an unpredictable number of responses

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Fixed-Interval Schedules

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Reinforce the first response after a fixed time period

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Variable-Interval Schedules

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Reinforces the first response after varying the time intervals

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Punishment

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An event that decreases the behavior that it follows

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Positive Punishment

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Administers an aversive stimulus to decrease behavior

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Negative Punishment

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Withdraws a desirable privilege to decrease behavior

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Cognitive Map

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A mental representation of the layout of one’s environment. For example, after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it.

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Latent Learning

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Learning that occurs but isn’t apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

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Intrinsic Motivation

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A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake

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Extrinsic Motivation

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A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment

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Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning:

Response

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CC: involuntary, automatic
OC: voluntary, operates on environment

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Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning:

Acquisition

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CC: Associating events; CS (conditioned stimulus) announces the US (unconditioned stimulus)
OC: Associating response with a consequence (reinforcer or punisher)

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Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning:

Extinction

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CC: CR (conditioned response) decreases when CS (conditioned stimulus) is repeatedly presented alone
OC: Responding decreases when reinforcement stops

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Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning:

Cognitive Processes

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CC: organisms develop expectation that CS (conditioned stimulus) signals the arrival of the US (unconditioned stimulus)
OC: organisms develop expectation that a response will be reinforced or punished; they also exhibit latent learning without reinforcement

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Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning:

Biological Predispositions

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CC: Natural predispositions constrain what stimuli and responses can easily be associated
OC: Organisms best learn behaviors similar to their natural behaviors; unnatural behaviors instinctively drift back toward natural ones

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Observational Learning

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Learning by observing others

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Modeling

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The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

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Mirror Neurons

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Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain’s mirroring of another’s action may enable imitation, language learning, and empathy.

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Prosocial Behavior

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Positive, constructive, helpful behavior.

The opposite of antisocial behavior.

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Who is associated with classical conditioning, specifically with his experiments with dogs?

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Ivan Pavlov

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Who is associated with the Little Albert experiment and with creating behaviorism?

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John B. Watson

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Who is associated with taste aversion?

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John Garcia

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Who is associated with operant conditioning, specifically for being the most controversial behaviorist?

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B. F. Skinner

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Who is associated with observational behavior, specifically for his experiments with children and Bobo dolls?

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Albert Bandura

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