Modules 26-30

Question 1

Habituation

Answer 1

An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

Question 2

Associative learning

Answer 2

Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimulus (as in classical conditioning) or a response and it’s consequences (as in operant conditioning)

Question 3

Stimulus

Answer 3

Any event or situation that evokes a response

Question 4

Cognitive learning

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Classical conditioning

Answer 5

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli an anticipate events

Question 6

Behaviorism

Answer 6

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologist today agree the first part but not the second

Question 7

Nurtured stimulus (NS)

Answer 7

In classical conditioning s stimulus that elictics no response before conditioning

Question 8

Unconditioned response (UR)

Answer 8

In classical conditioned an unlearned naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

Question 9

Unconditioned stimulus (US)

Answer 9

In classical condtioning a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response

Question 10

Conditioned response

Answer 10

In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

Question 11

Conditioned stimulus

Answer 11

In classical conditioning but originally irrelevant stimulus that after association with the unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response

Question 12

Acquisition

Answer 12

In classical conditioning the initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response and operant conditioning in the strengthening of a reinforced response

Question 13

Higher order conditioning

Answer 13

A procedure in which the condition stimulus in one condition and experience is paired with the new neutral stimulus creating a second condition stimulus for example an animal that has learned that at tone predicts food might then learns that a light predicts a Tone and begin responding to the lake alone

Question 14

Extinction

Answer 14

The diminishing of a conditioned response occurs in classical conditioning when unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus occurs in operant conditioning a response is no longer reinforced

Question 15

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 15

The reappearance after a pause of a Extingusihed conditioned response

Question 16

Generalization

Answer 16

The tendency once a response has been conditioned for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

Question 17

Discrimination

Answer 17

In classical conditioning the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal and unconditioned stimulus

Question 18

Learning

Answer 18

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.