Key Words Flashcards
Operant conditioning
Learning through consequences
Positive reinforcement
Giving a reward after a good behaviour
Negative reinforcement
Removing something bad after a good behaviour
Positive punishment
Providing something had after a bad behaviour
Negative punishment
Providing something good after a bad behaviour
Continuous reinforcement
Rewarding every behaviour
Partial reinforcement
Rewarding only some behaviour
Primary reinforcement
Something that satisfies basic human needS
Secondary reinforcement
Something that can be exchanged for a reward
Stimulus
Any event or object that can provoke a sensory response
Response
The behaviour or reaction to the stimulus
Social learning
Theory that people learn beuaviours, values and attitudes through observing others
Operant conditioning
Behaviour is influenced by the consequence that follows it
Extinction
The forgetting of a learnt response
Spontaneous recovery
The return of a behaviour after its extinction because you have been with a conditioned stimulus