Classical and Operant Conditioning Vocab Flashcards
Learning
Relatively permanent change in behavior from experience
Classical Conditioning
Pair to stimuli for response
Stimulus
Person/place/thing we react to
Response
How we act or behave
Unconditioned Stimulus
P,P,T, automatic, food
Unconditioned Response
Act/behave, automatic, drool
Conditioned Stimulus
P,P,T, trained, bell
Conditioned Response
Act/behave, trained, drool
Acquisition
The process of pairing to stimuli (repetition/intensity)
Extinction
Learned response diminishes
Spontaneous Recovery
After extinction, response returns
Generalization
Same response to similar stimuli (dogs drool to all bells)
Discrimination
Different response to different stimuli (dogs drool to one bell)
Ivan Pavlov
Trained dogs to drool to bell
John Watson and Rosalie Rayner
Little Albert experiment, infant fears rats (generalization)