Operant conditioning

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Operant conditioning

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forming an association between your actions and their consequences

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Edward Thorndike

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The law of effect

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law of effect

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rewarded behavior is likely to increase and punished behavior will decrease

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B.F. Skinner

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operant conditioning

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shaping

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rewarding small behaviors in hopes of getting complex behaviors

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Chaining

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reinforcing individual responses occurring in a sequence to form a complex behavior

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positive reinforcement

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presenting a pleasant stimulus after response to continue a behavior

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negative reinforcement

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removing an unpleasant stimulus after response to continue a behavior

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primary reinforcer

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stimuli that satisfy some type of biological need

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secondary reinforcer

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anything that has an association or promise of a biological need

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avoidance

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take away something before it starts

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escape

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taking away something after it has started

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fixed ratio

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reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses

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variable ratio

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you don’t know how many times you have to do something to be rewarded

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fixed interval

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reinforces a response only after a specific time has elapsed

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variable interval

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reinforces response only after unpredictable time has elapsed

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positive punishment

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when you give something they don’t want to stop a behavior

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negative punishment

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taking away something they do want to stop behavior

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Edward Tolman

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when or if mice were rewarded on different levels

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latent learning

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learning that occurs without behavior change or reward

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cognitive map

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mental representation of an area in your brain

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place cells

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helps remember details about specific places

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wolfgang koehler

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insight learning

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insight learning

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how animals use their minds to solve problems

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serial/sequential learning

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learning that takes place in a particular order or sequence

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paired associate learning

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learning and pairing it with the concept it represents

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overlearning

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practicing newly acquired skills beyond a point of initial mastery

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intrinsic motivation

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do it because you love to do it

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extrinsic motivation

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do it because you are rewarded

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over justification effect

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when you add an extrinsic to an intrinsic activity, your love for it goes down

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non-contigement reinforceetn

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occurs when an unimportant response is accidentally or unintentionally reinforced

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effect of random reoinfrocements

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whatever pigeons were doing during reward they continued to do

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illusion correlation

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assuming 2 things are related when they aren’t

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social learning thory

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learning that occurs when watching other people

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modeling

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seeing and repeating an action

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Albert Bandura

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bobo doll expirament

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vicarious reinforcement

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see someone rewarded for behavior so you repeat behavior

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vicarious punishment

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see someone being punished so you dont repeat it

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neurological basis of observational learning

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neurons that fire when you do something and when you see someone doing something

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biofeedback

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learned ability to control physiological functions at will

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problem focused coping

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removes the stressor, deals with root cause of problem