Learning

Question 1

Classical conditioning

Answer 1

Ivan Pavlov. People and animals can learn to associate neutral stimuli with stimuli that produce reflexive ,involuntary responses and will learn to respond similarly to the new stimulus as they did to the old one.

Question 2

Unconditioned stimulus

Answer 2

Something that elicits a natural,reflexive response.

Question 3

Unconditioned respones

Answer 3

Is the automatic response to a stimulus.

Question 4

Acquisition

Answer 4

he attainment by an individual of new behavior, information, or skills or the process by which this occurs

Question 5

Little Albert

Answer 5

John Watson and Rosalie Rayner. Conditioned a boy to be afraid of a white rat

Question 6

Aversive conditioning

Answer 6

used to help a person give up a behavior or habit by having them associate it with something unpleasant.
Eg. putting bitter nail to stop biting nails

Question 7

Operant conditioning

Answer 7

Learning based on the association of consequences with one’s behavior.

Question 8

Law of affect

Answer 8

States that if the consequences of a behavior are pleasant,the stimulus response connection will be strengthened and the likelihood of the behavior will increase

Question 9

Positive reinforcement

Answer 9

Refers to adding something pleasant.

Question 10

Negative reinforcement

Answer 10

Refers to the removal of something unpleasant

Question 11

Positive punishment

Answer 11

The addition of something unpleasant

Question 12

Negative punishment

Answer 12

the removal of something pleasant

Question 13

Observational learning

Answer 13

Studied a lot by Albert Bandura. Bobo doll

Question 14

Modeling

Answer 14

Has two components:
Observation and imitation

Question 15

Insight learning

Answer 15

Wolfgang Kohler,chimpanzee experiment. When one suddenly realizes how to solve a problem.