Learning Flashcards

1
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habituation

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an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

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2
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associative learning

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learning that certain events occur together.

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3
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stimulus

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event or situation that evokes a response

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4
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cognitive learning

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the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, watching others, or through language

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5
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acquisition

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The initial stage of classical conditioning when ones links a neutral stimulus and an unconditional stimulus together

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6
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higher order conditioning

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one thing triggering the usual thing that makes a dog salivate

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7
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extinction

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when the dog stop salivating after no food comes when the whistle is played over and over again

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8
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spontaneous recovery

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the reappearance of the salivation after the extinction

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9
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generalization

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reacting to sounds that are similar to Conditioned stimulus…(something sounding like the whistle)

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10
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discrimination

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other irrelevant stimuli

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11
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premack principle

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doing something you enjoy after studying

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