Learning Flashcards
habituation
an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
associative learning
learning that certain events occur together.
stimulus
event or situation that evokes a response
cognitive learning
the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, watching others, or through language
acquisition
The initial stage of classical conditioning when ones links a neutral stimulus and an unconditional stimulus together
higher order conditioning
one thing triggering the usual thing that makes a dog salivate
extinction
when the dog stop salivating after no food comes when the whistle is played over and over again
spontaneous recovery
the reappearance of the salivation after the extinction
generalization
reacting to sounds that are similar to Conditioned stimulus…(something sounding like the whistle)
discrimination
other irrelevant stimuli
premack principle
doing something you enjoy after studying