Learning and Behavioral Modification Flashcards
What is the illness model?
People anthropomorphizing animals and their illness, isn’t very good
What does appetitive mean?
Good stimulus
What does adverse mean?
Bad stimulus
What is positive reinforcement?
Good behavior receives appetitive stimulus
What is positive punishment?
Bad behavior receives adverse stimulus
What is negative reinforcement?
Good behavior prevents adverse stimulus
What is negative punishment?
Bad behavior prevents appetitive stimulus
What is habituation?
Over time repeated exposure to stimuli results in a smaller or non existent response to the stimuli
What is structural habituation?
Using habituation to desensitize a dog
What is flooding?
Providing the desensitized stimuli at full strength
What is operant conditioning?
Doing something on purpose in response to stimuli
What is a reinforcer?
The reward of operative conditioning
What is classical conditioning?
The involuntary response to a certain stimulus
What is unconditioned?
The animal has not been taught to have this response
What is conditioned?
The animal has been taught to have this response