Chapters 7 and 8 Flashcards
Learning
Relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
Behaviorism
What are the underlying principles that guide learning
Associative learning
Learn to associate two events when they occur one right after the other
Classical Conditioning
Learning to behave a certain way with a certain stimulus
Pavlov’s original experiments
Working on how dogs salivate
Conditioned
learned
Unconditioned
Automatic/innate
Stimulus
Something in the environment
Response
Behavior the organism does when the stimulus is present
Extinction
Present CS w/o US repeatedly, CS stops
Spontaneous Recovery
After extinction, present CS after rest period, triggers CR
Generalization
Weaker response to a similar stimulus
Discrimination
Can train to only respond to stimulus trained on, gets rid of generalization
Biology in classical conditioning
We are prepared to make certain associations
Cognition in classical conditioning
Thinking can lessen association
Operant Conditioning
Reinforcing behavior
Skinner Box
Box with lever, food dispenser, and electrical floor
Shaping
Reinforcements that gradually guide actions toward a desired behavior
Reinforcement
Any event that increases the frequency of behavior
Positive
Adding something to the situation
Negative
Taking something away
Primary
Innately important to learner
Secondary
Have to learn, associated with primary reinforcer (i.e. money)
Immediate
Happens immediately to the learner
Delayed
Some period of time before reinforcement
Continuous
Response is reinforced every time
Partial
Give reinforcement only sometimes
Is partial or continuous learned and unlearned quickly?
Continuous
Fixed interval
Same amount of time
Variable interval
Unpredictable amount of time
Fixed ratio
Same number of times
Variable ratio
Unpredictable number of times