Operant and Observational Conditioning Flashcards

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The type of learning in which behaviors are emitted to earn rewards or avoid punishments:

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Operant Conditioning

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The type of learning in which behaviors are learned by observing a model:

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Operational/Social Learning

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First psychologist to formulate the theory of operant conditioning:

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E.L. Thorndike

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What did Thorndike call operant conditioning?

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Instrumental Conditioning

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5
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Rewarded behavior is likely to occur again:

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Thorndike’s Law of Effect

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Actions only incidentally tied to good results:

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Superstitious Behaviors

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Thorndike created a _______ box to use with _____:

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Puzzle; cats

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8
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Father for operant conditioning:

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B.F. Skinner

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Creator of the Operant Chamber:

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Skinner

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10
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A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement:

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Discriminative Stimulus

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Add a desirable stimulus:

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Positive Reinforcement

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Remove an aversive stimulus NOT A PUNISHMENT:

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Negative Reinforcement

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Innately satisfying:

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Primary Reinforcer

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14
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Gains power through its association with the primary reinforcer:

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Secondary Reinforcer

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15
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Used to increase a list of acceptable behaviors by earning _____:

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Token

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16
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Reinforcement should mean something to the individual:

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Premack Principle

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17
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Reinforcement that occurs instantly after a behavior:

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Immediate Reinforcer

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18
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A reinforcement that is delayed in time for a certain behavior:

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Delayed Reinforcer

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We may be inclined to engage in _____ _______ reinforcers rather than ____ _____;

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Small; immediate; large; delayed

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20
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Response is reinforced every time it occurs:

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Continuous Reinforcement

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21
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Reinforcing only some responses:

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Partial Reinforcement

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22
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Results in slower acquisition but greater resistance to extinction:

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Partial Reinforcement

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Reinforcement after a set # of responses:

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Fixed-Ratio

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HIGH rates of responding:

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Fixed-Ratio

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Reinforcement after a set amount of time has lapsed:
Fixed-Interval
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Reinforcement after average/unpredictable number of responses:
Variable-Ratio
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HIGH, STEADY rates of resonding:
Variable-Ratio
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Reinforcement after an unpredictable amount of time:
Variable-Interval
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The WORST type of reinforcement:
Variable-Interval
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Administer an aversive/undesired stimulus:
Positive Punishment
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Remove a desired stimulus:
Negative Punishment
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An organism learns to perform an operation to terminate an ongoing, aversive stimulus:
Escape Conditioning
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Similar to escape conditioning but includes a conditioned stimulus and is preventive in nature:
Avoidance Conditioning
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Occurs when successive approximations of a behavior are rewarded so that the organism eventually produces the desired behavior:
Shaping
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Observed/Experienced through someone else and learning happens:
Vicarious Punishment/Reinforcement
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May result from a situation where there is no contingency between behaviors and conseqences:
Learned Helplessness
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A mental representation of the layout of one's environment:
Cognitive Map
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Cognitive maps are based on _____ _____:
Latent Learning
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Learning that occurs but isn't show until an incentive is given:
Latent Learning
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Who proposed the theory of latent learning?
Edward C. Tolman
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A relatively sudden solution comes to mind to a probem:
Insight Learning
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Who studied insight learning with chimps?
Wolfgang Kohler
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Desire to perform behavior for its own sake and to be effective:
Intrinsic Motivation
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Desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment:
Extrinsic Motivation
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The effect of promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do:
Overjustification
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Skinner argued that behaviors were shaped by _____ influences:
External
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The process of showing how something is done and then replicating the action:
Modeling
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Frontal lobe nerves that fire when performing certain actions of when observing another doing so:
Mirror Neurons
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Pioneering researcher of Social Learning Theory:
Albert Bandura
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Known for Bobo doll experiment:
Bandura
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Constructive, helpful behavior. It can prompt similar behaviors in others:
Proscial Behavior
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Belief by Bandura that the environment influences the organism and its cognition which in turn influences the environment:
Reciprocal Determinism
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Believes we can explain human behavior beyond social learning:
Social Cognitive Theory
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The degree to which a person believes in his or her own ability to complete tasks or reach goals and influence situations:
Self-Efficacy