Learning Flashcards

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Stimulus that triggers a response automatically and reflexively

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Behavioral definition of learning

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View of psychology that studies behavior and not mental processes

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Unconditioned response

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Automatic response to a unconditioned stimulus

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Extinction

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Diminishing of a learned response when a conditioned stimulus does not follow condition response

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Discrimination

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Process in which an organism produces the different response to two similar stimuli

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Lil albert experiment

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Little six-month baby conditioned to fear mice

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Generalization

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Process in which an organism produces the same response to similar stimuli

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Spontaneous recovery

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Reappearance of stimulus

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Classical conditioning

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Type of learning where a stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces a response

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Pavlov’s experiment w/ UCS & UCR

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UCS - meat powder because it produces salvation without learning
UCR - response of stimulus

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Shaping

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Reinforcement behaviors that are more and more what you want to occur

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Cognition map

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Mental representation of a place

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Reinforcement

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Any consequence that increases likelihood of the behavior

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Punishment

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Any consequence that decreases the likelihood of the behavior

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Positive reinforcement

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Increasing good behavior with adding something else

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Negative reinforcement

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increasing good behavior with removal

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continuous reinforcement

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Re-warding every time

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Partial reinforcement

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Rewarding only sometimes

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Interval schedules

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Time elapses between reinforcement

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Ratio schedules

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Focuses on number of responses before reinforcement happens

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Fixed interval

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Partial reinforcement that rewards only the first correct response after define period

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Fixed ratio

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Partial reinforcement that rewards a response only after a define of correct response

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variable interval

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Partial reinforcement rewards the first correct response after an unpredictable amount of time

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Variable ratio

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Requires a number of correct responses before reinforcement and Can be unpredictable because it changes

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Observational learning

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Observing and learning from their surroundings

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Bandura doll experiment

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Parents showed agression with bobo dolls kids mimicked

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Model

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One being observed in observational learning

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Conditions that must be met for observational learning

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Attention,retention, ability to respond, motivation

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Prosocial behavior

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Positive constructive helpful behavior

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Antisocial behavior

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Negative destructive and unhelpful

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What impact does TV have according to observational learning theorists?

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  • long exposure to watching violence on tv resulting in violence in long run
  • Shapes concept of reality