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
Negative reinforcement
increasing good behavior with removal
continuous reinforcement
Re-warding every time
Partial reinforcement
Rewarding only sometimes
Interval schedules
Time elapses between reinforcement
Ratio schedules
Focuses on number of responses before reinforcement happens
Fixed interval
Partial reinforcement that rewards only the first correct response after define period
Fixed ratio
Partial reinforcement that rewards a response only after a define of correct response
variable interval
Partial reinforcement rewards the first correct response after an unpredictable amount of time
Variable ratio
Requires a number of correct responses before reinforcement and Can be unpredictable because it changes
