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Learning Flashcards

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Learning

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Change in behaviour due to experience

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Innate

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Something we’re born knowing how to do

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Reflexes

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Type of stimulus-response relationship that’s either learned/innate and indicated behaviour that’s automatic

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Social/vicarious learning

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Learn by watching others

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Latent learning

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Learn something that doesn’t show until it’s relevant (can be social/operant/Pavlovian)

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Pavlovian/classical conditioning

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Learning in which seemingly insignificant event signals important event (associating 2 events)

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Stimulus

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Event in situation that tells us about environment and what to do

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Unconditional stimulus (UCS)

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Biologically important event requires no conditioning to affect behaviour

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Unconditional response (UCR)

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Biologically important respone occurs b/c of UCS

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Conditional stimulus (CS)

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Requires learning to be meaningful and is only meaningful b/c event indicates something about UCS (signals/predicts UCS)

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Conditional response (CR)

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Learned response that occurs to the CS

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Neutral stimulus

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  • Becomes CS after conditioning
  • Doesn’t indicated if UCS will occur and in which environmental event currently has no meaning
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Excitatory CS

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  • Indicates that UCS will occur
  • (+) correlation b/w CS and UCS
  • CS presented before UCS
  • Short-delayed: Signal occurs a few secs before what’s signaled
  • Long-delayed: Signal occurs many secs before
  • Trace: Signal occurs many mins/hours before what’s signaled
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Inhibitory CS

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  • Indicates that no UCS will occur
  • (-) correlation b/w CS and UCS
  • Simultaneous: Signal and what’s signaled occur at the same time (CS and UCS overlap)
  • Backward: UCS presented before CS so CS signals no UCS will occur
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Extinction (classical)

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CS presented until CR is reduced/goes away

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Spontaneous recovery

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After extinction, signal occurs alone and CR reappears

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Stimulus generalization

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Notices similarities b/w objects and responses to them as if they were the same

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Stimulus discrimination

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Notices differences b/w objects responds differently b/c they’re not the same

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Higher-order conditioning

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Already-conditioned signal paired w/ neutral stimulus
[already paired neutral stimulus becomes UCS]neutral stimulus becomes CS

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Behaviourism

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  • How we learn new behaviours and how those change across different situations
  • Credited to John B Watson
  • Excluded mental constructs and believed that only observable events should be included
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Steps of exposure therapy

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1) Exposure plan (list fears from least to greatest)
2) Pick low starting point
3) Build way up

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Operant/instrumental conditioning

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Learn that behaviours = consequences and how these affect us

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Instrumental

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Process of interacting w/ some response option that can affect environment

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Law of effect/consequence

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Finding that we learn about situations/behaviours that become something we like and don’t learn to association situations and behaviours that become something we don’t like

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Consequence

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Type of stimuli in which outcomes produced by behaviour affect future behaviours

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Satisfaction/”stamping in”

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Repeat behaviours that become something we like

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Discomfort/”stamping out”

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Don’t associate beahviours w/ situations that become something we don’t like and learn to not repeat them

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Radical behaviourism

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  • Founded by B.F. Skinner
  • Radical behaviourism: Treats thinking and feeling like any other behaviour
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Antecedents

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Situation that makes it possible for us to respond and tell us what we might get for that response

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Contingencies

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If-then rule (if you do this then that will happen)

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Positive reinforcement

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Apply stimulus to increase desirable behaviour

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Positive punishment

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Apply stimulus to decrease undesirable behaviour

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Negative reinforcement

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Remove stimulus to increase desirable behaviour

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Negative punishment

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Remove stimulus to decrease undesirable behaviour

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2 forms of negative reinforcement

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Escape: Aversive stimulus already present and response removes/stops unpleasant stimulus (stop situation during its occurrence)
Avoidance: Aversive stimulus not present but will occur unless you produce response to cancel/omit unpleasant stimulus (stop situation before it occurs)

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Extinction burst

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Behaviour previously reinforced occurs at higher rate w/o consequence

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Partial reinforcement extinction effect

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Behaviour reinforced only occasionally lasts longer w/o consequences than behaviour reinforced every time when consequences are no longer available

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Shaping

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Breaking down complex response into smaller steps and reinforcing responses that are closer and closer to final form and no longer reinforcing previous behaviours

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Generalized unconditioned reinforcers

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Objects traded for several other reinforces and don’t lose influence over reinforcing behaviour

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Fixed ratio (FR) sched

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Reinforcers produced after set # of responses

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Variable ratio (VR) sched

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Reinforcers produced after average # of responses

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Fixed interval (FI) sched

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Reinforcers produced after set # of times and a few responses

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Variable interval (VI) sched

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Reinforcers produced after average # of time and a few responses

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Ratio reinforcement schedules from lowest to highest rate of responding

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FI, VI, FR, VR

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Main difference b/w Pavlovian and operant conditioning

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Pavlovian: UCS will occur regardless of if it’s been associated w/ CS (behaviour does not affect probability of consequence)
Operant: Must respond to receive consequence

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___ is credited w/ establishment of cognitive psych

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Edward C. Tolman

47
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___ discovered field of social learning

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Albert Bandura

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4 phases/processes/states of social learning

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Attentional:Observer watches model doing something
Retention: Observer remembers what model did so they can imitate later
Production: Observer copies what mode demonstrated
Motivational: Obeserver obtains same outcome as model for the same response

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