Learning Flashcards
Learning
A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience
Habituation
You create an association between a stimulus and you become less reactive to it
Sensory adaptation
When we get used to a continues unchanged stimulus in our sensory organs
Associative learning
The events may be 2 stimuli or a response and its consequences
Classical conditioning
Learning in which one learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events
Behaviorist
View that
#1 psych should be an objective science #2 studies behavior without reference to mental processes
Neutral stimules
Dose not create any response because it is meaningless
Unconditioned stimulus
Stimulus that creates a response without training
Unconditioned response
The reflex like response to the unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned stimulus
Originally neutral stimulus when paired with the unconditioned stimulus create a responses
Conditioned response
A response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus
Acquisition
Process of learning the responses pairing
Extinction
When the stimulus is absent for a period of time the association goes away
This spontaneous recovery
A response become extinct becoming presented with that stimulus again the response reappears
Generalization
Associating other neutral stimuli with the unconditioned stimuli
Discrimination
Being able to only respond to the conditioned stimulus and not other similar ones
Little Albert experiment
Showed that the fear response could be conditioned in humans
Operant conditioning
An active subject voluntarily emits behaviors and can learn new ones
Reinforcers…Behavior
Increase
Punishers… behavior
Decrease