Module 20

Question 1

what is learning

Answer 1

Process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors

Question 2

what is associative learning

Answer 2

Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning

Question 3

what is a stimulus

Answer 3

an event or situation that evokes a response

Question 4

two types of conditioning

Answer 4

classical: We associate stimuli that we do not control, and we automatically respond (exhibiting respondent behaviors
operant: We associate a response (our behavior) and its consequence (producing operant behaviors).

Question 5

what is cognitive learning

Answer 5

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language

Question 6

what is observational learning

Answer 6

A form of cognitive learning that lets us learn from others’ experiences.

Question 7

generalization in classical conditioning

Answer 7

Tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

Question 8

discrimination in classical conditioning

Answer 8

Learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus (which predicts the unconditioned stimulus) and other irrelevant stimuli