Learning Part 1 Flashcards
Any relative permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience
Learning
Belief that our environment shapes every aspect of who we are and what we will become
Environmental Determinism
Allows us to understand the world in a way that makes it controllable and suggest we can change
Environmental Determinism
Learn that certain events occur together
Associative Learning
Variation of this are classical conditioning and operant conditioning
Associative Learning
Pavlovian Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Type of learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes capable to eliciting a conditioned response after the association of a unconditioned stimulus
Classical Conditioning
View that psychology should be an objective science
Behaviorism
Only able to study on observable behaviors, avoid references to mental processes
Behaviorism
Who is the father of behaviorism
John Watson
One that evokes no special response
Neutral Stimulus
Stimulus that naturally and automatically elicits a reflexive unconditioned response
Unconditioned Stimulus
Unlearned, involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Originally neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a CR after association with UCS
Conditioned Stimulus
Learned response to a previously neutral CS which results from the acquired association between the CS and UCS
Conditioned Response