test 3 - part 2 Flashcards
1
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Spontaneous Recovery
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- return of the conditioned response despite a lack of further conditioning
2
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Generalization
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- refers to the tendency to have conditioned responses triggered by related stimuli
3
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Discrimination
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- refers to the learned ability to only respond to a specific stimuli, preventing generalization
4
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Little Albert Experiment
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- John B Watson
- Made a 9 month old baby named Albert afraid of a furry white rat and eventually all furry white things by associating a hammer hitting a steel bar w/ a hammer
5
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Operant conditioning
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- Act of chosen behavior (response) followed by a reward or punitive feedback from the environment
6
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Operant and classical conditioning are:
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- Different forms of associative learning
7
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Classical conditioning involves what kind of behavior?
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- respondent behavior, reflexive, automatic reactions such as fear or craving
8
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Operant conditioning involves what kind of behavior?
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- operant behavior, chosen behaviors which operate on the environment
9
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Thorndike’s Law of Effect
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- behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
10
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Reinforcement
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- refers to any feedback from the environment that makes a behavior more likely to recur
11
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Positive reinforcement
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- adding something desirable
12
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Negative reinforcement
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- ending something unpleasant
13
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Refers to the ability to become more and more specific in what situations trigger a response
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- discrimination
14
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Primary reinforcer
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- stimulus that meets a basic need or otherwise is intrinsically desirable, such as food, sex, fun, attention, or power
15
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Secondary reinforcer
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- stimulus that has become associated with a primary reinforcer
