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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience

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Habituation

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You create an association between a stimulus and you become less reactive to it

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Sensory adaptation

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When we get used to a continues unchanged stimulus in our sensory organs

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Associative learning

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The events may be 2 stimuli or a response and its consequences

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Classical conditioning

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Learning in which one learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events

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Behaviorist

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View that

#1 psych should be an objective science
#2 studies behavior without reference to mental processes
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Neutral stimules

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Dose not create any response because it is meaningless

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Stimulus that creates a response without training

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Unconditioned response

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The reflex like response to the unconditioned stimulus

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Conditioned stimulus

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Originally neutral stimulus when paired with the unconditioned stimulus create a responses

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Conditioned response

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A response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus

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Acquisition

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Process of learning the responses pairing

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Extinction

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When the stimulus is absent for a period of time the association goes away

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This spontaneous recovery

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A response become extinct becoming presented with that stimulus again the response reappears

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Generalization

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Associating other neutral stimuli with the unconditioned stimuli

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Discrimination

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Being able to only respond to the conditioned stimulus and not other similar ones

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Little Albert experiment

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Showed that the fear response could be conditioned in humans

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Operant conditioning

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An active subject voluntarily emits behaviors and can learn new ones

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Reinforcers…Behavior

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Increase

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Punishers… behavior

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Decrease

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Skinners experiment effect

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Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely

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Reinforcement

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Any event that strengthens a proceeding response

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Shaping

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Guiding the child’s actions toward the desired behavior

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Successive approximations

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You are rewarding responses that are closer to the final desired behavior and you ignore all other responses

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Positive reinforcement

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Strengthens a response by adding a desirable stimulus

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Negative reinforcement

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Removes a punishing stimulus

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Primary reinforcers

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

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Conditioned reinforcers (secondary)

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Increase its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforce

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Reinforcement schedules

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A pattern that defines how often a desired response Will be reinforced

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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 part of the time slower acquisition but greater resistance to extinction

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Fixed ratio schedules

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reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses

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Varibal ratio schedules

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Provide a reinforcement after a seemingly unpredictable number of responses

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Ratio schedules=

Variable schedules=

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Higher response rates

More consistent responding

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Interval schedules

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Period of time must pass before reinforcement

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Punishment

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A event that tends to decrease a behavior that it follows

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+ punishment

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ADD an negative

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  • Punishment
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Withdraw a rewarding stimulus

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Instinctive drift

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Is the tendency for conditioning to be hindered by natural instincts

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Taste aversion

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A learned response to eating spoiled or toxic food and is critical for our survival and lets us know what food to avoid

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Latent learning

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Unconscious learning that show us suddenly when needed Ex cognitive map

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Insight learning

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Some learning is through simple intuition a sudden realization of the solution Ex know answer for a problem you struggled with on the test after turning it in

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Intrinsic motivation

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A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own stake

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Extrinsic modivation

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A desire to preforme a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatening punishment

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Biofeedback

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Helps you make subtle changes in your body such as relaxing certain muscles to achieve the results you want such as a decrease in stress

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Problem focused coping

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Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or how we interact with that

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Emotion focused coping

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Avoiding or ignoring a stressor and focussing on emotion need

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Helplessness

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Feeling helpless and oppressed my lead to a state of passive resignation

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External locus of control

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The perception that you control your own fate

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Observational learning

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Learning by watching the behavior is others a then imitating that behavior through molding

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By watching a model usually someone we admire we experience reinforcement or punishment through them

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