Learning Flashcards
Unconditioned stimulus
Stimulus that triggers a response automatically and reflexively
Behavioral definition of learning
View of psychology that studies behavior and not mental processes
Unconditioned response
Automatic response to a unconditioned stimulus
Extinction
Diminishing of a learned response when a conditioned stimulus does not follow condition response
Discrimination
Process in which an organism produces the different response to two similar stimuli
Lil albert experiment
Little six-month baby conditioned to fear mice
Generalization
Process in which an organism produces the same response to similar stimuli
Spontaneous recovery
Reappearance of stimulus
Classical conditioning
Type of learning where a stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces a response
Pavlov’s experiment w/ UCS & UCR
UCS - meat powder because it produces salvation without learning
UCR - response of stimulus
Shaping
Reinforcement behaviors that are more and more what you want to occur
Cognition map
Mental representation of a place
Reinforcement
Any consequence that increases likelihood of the behavior
Punishment
Any consequence that decreases the likelihood of the behavior
Positive reinforcement
Increasing good behavior with adding something else