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Classical conditioning

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US pair with CS to produce UR

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Extinction

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Unlearning behavior

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Spontaneous recovery

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Behavior briefly reappears

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Generalization

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Respond to similar stimulus

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5
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Discriminate

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Distinction between various stimuli

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Second/higher-order conditioning

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Pair CS with new CS to produce same UR

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Law of effect

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Pleasant consequence, stimulus/response connection goes up, unpleasant goes down

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8
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Instrumental learning

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Consequence instrumental in shaping future behavior

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Positive reinforcement

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Increase behavior by adding something good

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Negative reinforcement

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Increase behavior by taking away something bad

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Escape learning

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Terminate aversive stimulus

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Avoidance learning

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Avoid unpleasant stimulus

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13
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Positive punishment

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Decrease behavior by adding something bad

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14
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Negative punishment

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Decrease behavior by taking away something good

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15
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Shaping

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Reinforcing steps to desired behavior

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Chaining

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Successive responses to get an award

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Primary reinforces

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Themselves rewarding (food)

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Secondary reinforcers

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Learned value ($)

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Generalized reinforcer

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Can be used for anything ($)

20
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Token economy

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Trade tokens for other reinforcers

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Premack Principle

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2 activities, the one preferred is used to reinforce one not preferred

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Fixed-ratio schedule

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Set # of responses

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Variable-ratio schedule

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of responses varies, averages to a certain #

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Fixed-interval schedule

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Set time elaspes

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Variable-interval schedule

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Time elapsed varies

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Contiguity model of CC

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Continuous pairings of CS and US

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Contingency model

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Intermixed w/ times of just CS or just US; association not as strong

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Observational learning

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Albert Bandura

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Latent learning

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Learning that isn’t totally evident

30
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Abstract learning

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Understanding concepts

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Insight learning

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Wolfgang Kohler, sudden insight on solving problems