mod 20 - learning

Question 1

adaptability

Answer 1

ability to adapt dude

Question 2

learning

Answer 2

acquiring new/relatively ENDURIng information/BEHAVIORS

Question 3

associative learning

Answer 3

associating one event w/ another, either two stimuli (classical) or a response and consequence (operant)

Question 4

stimulus

Answer 4

smth that causes response

Question 5

cognitive learning

Answer 5

get mental info via observation or language (info communication forms)

Question 6

classical conditioning

Answer 6

one learns to link 2+ stimuli and ANTICIPATE event

Question 7

behaviorism

Answer 7

Psychology should:
1. be objective science
2. study behavior WITHOUT regard to mental processes ((behavior is behavior

2 is not regarded as true nowadays

Question 8

respondent behavior

Answer 8

automatic response behavior (flinch when sprayed w/ water)

Question 9

neutral stimulus (NS)

Answer 9

no response before conditioning (word can b4 sprays)

Question 10

unconditioned response (UR)

Answer 10

natural response to stimulus (flinch sprayed with water)

Question 11

unconditioned stimulus (US)

Answer 11

unconditionally (naturally AND automatically) causes response (get slapped with react no matter what if not expecting it)

Question 12

conditioned response (CR)

Answer 12

learned response to previously neutral stimulus (now is the conditioned stimulus, or CS)

Question 13

conditioned stimulus (CS)

Answer 13

once irrelevant neutral stimulus now having been associated with an unconditioned stimulus, causes conditioned response

Question 14

acquisition (initial stage)

Answer 14

classical: linkage of neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus, creating a conditioned stimulus and thus conditioned response

operant: strengthened reinforced response

Question 15

higher-order conditioning AKA second order conditioning

Answer 15

already conditioned stimulus gets paired with a new neutral stimulus, making a second often weaker conditioned stimulus (animal associates noise with food, then light plays before noise, so animal might start reacting to light)

Question 16

extinction

Answer 16

diminishing of conditiioned response

classical: unconditioned stimulus no longer follows conditioned stimulus (broken association)

operant: response = no longer enforced (also broken association)

Question 17

spontaneous recovery

Answer 17

reappearance of extinguished conditioned response

Question 18

generalization

Answer 18

stimuli similar to conditioned stimuli to elicit conditioned response (traumatized children react more negatively to angry faces)

Question 19

discrimination

Answer 19

The LEARNED ability to discriminate between conditioned Stimulus (CS) and random, neutral stimulus w/o response (can vs. other words)

Question 20

why is pavlov’s work remaining so important

Answer 20

responses to stimuli can be classicalyl conditioened to many other organisms
AND
the process of learning can be studied objectively

Question 21

core of operant conditioning

Answer 21

MOTIVATION, you go for more wanted results and run from less wanted

Question 22

core of cognitive learning

Answer 22

we learn thru observation and thru language we learn that which we have not experienced

Question 23

how long for behaviors to become habitual

Answer 23

66 days

Question 24

True/false: learned asssociations feed habitual behaviors

Answer 24

true, the more we do smth the more the behaviors are associated with the context of where and when and why we doing it

Question 25

true/false: other animals learn by association

Answer 25

true

Question 26

what is the process of learning associations called?

Answer 26

conditioning

Question 27

classical vs. operant conditioning

Answer 27

associate 2 STIMULI and anticipate if one happens another will
vs.
associate OUR RESPONSE w/ a consequence

Question 28

true/false: classical conditioning works on immune system responses

Answer 28

true

Question 28

why are habits so hard to break? (WIP)

Question 28

the first step of classical conditioning, when an NS becomes a CS, is called ____________. WHen a US no longer follows CS, and the CR is weakened, this is ________

Answer 28

acquisition, extinction

Question 28

true/false; drug users, when removed from contexts they associate with highs, are more likely to not feel a craving

Answer 28

true