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Lecture 26 Flashcards

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What is Escape conditioning?

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Learn response to terminate aversive stimuli (e.g. aloe on sunburn)

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What is Avoidance conditioning?

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Learn response to avoid aversive stimuli (e.g putting sunburn on beforehand)

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What are the two factors of the theory of avoidance?

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  • Initial association between stimuli develops

- Negative reinforcement maintains avoidant response

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What is Specialized animal training?

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Training animals to perform certain tasks that assist people with various kinds of disabilities

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What is Behaviour Modification, applied behaviour analysis?

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Involves using principles of conditioning to stop behaviour considered problematic

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What is Token Economy?

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Reinforcing good behaviour with tokens that can be exchanged for tangible rewards

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What is one limitation to Token Economy?

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It often does not change behaviour in the long run

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What is Biological Preparedness?

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Evolutionary pressures have ‘prewired’ us to more easily learn behaviours related to survival

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What is instinctive drift?

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The idea that conditioned responses have a tendency to drift back toward instinctive behaviour

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What is the Cerebellum involved in?

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Acquiring classical conditioning based association

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What is the Hippocampus important for?

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Encoding explicit memories

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What is the Amygdala important for?

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Fear conditioning

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What is Dopamine important for?

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General reward activity for learning in many contexts

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What is Fear Conditioning?

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Learning aversive association with stimuli

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What are Mirror Neurons?

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Neurons that fire when we perform certain actions as well as observe other engaging in a range of behaviours

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What are Cognitive Maps?

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Sophisticated mental representations of spatial layouts which they an use to flexibly navigate their environment

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What is Insight learning?

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The sudden realization of some useful source of information and/or relationship that helps us solve a problem

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What is Latent Learning?

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Learning that takes place at one time but is not demonstrated until a later point in time

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What is Observational Learning?

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Learning that occurs by watching others modelling particular kinds of behaviour

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What does Social Cognitive theory focus on?

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The roles play by social learning, cognition, and self regulation in predicting/explaining learning behaviour

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What are the four stages that modelling can influence behaviour is social cognitive theory?

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Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation

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