Conditioning and Learning - Chapter 7 - Vocabulary

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

Relatively permanent change in behavior due to reinforcement.

Question 2

Rienforcement

Answer 2

Any event that increases the chances of a response happening again.

Question 3

1. What is OPERANT CONDITIONING?

2. Who studied operant conditioning?

Answer 3

1. OPERANT CONDITIONING:
   a response is made, followed by reinforcement or punishment which determines if behavior happens again.
2. B.F. Skinner
   Operant conditioning came from work regarding superstition.

Question 4

Negative Reinforcement

Answer 4

A stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens a response.

Question 5

Positive Response

Answer 5

A stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens a response.

Question 6

Punishment

Answer 6

Any event following a response that decreases the chance of the behavior following again

Question 7

Aquisition

Answer 7

In CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:
The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus to an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.

In OPERANT CONDITIONING
the strengthening of a reinforced response.

Question 8

Extinction

Answer 8

IN CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:
the diminishing of a conditioned response;
happens after an unconditioned stimulus isn’t followed by a conditioned stimulus.

In OPERANT CONDITIONING
when a response is no longer reinforced.

Question 9

Spontaneous Recovery

Answer 9

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