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Unit 4: Learning and Conditioning Flashcards

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Learning

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Relatively permanent change in observable behavior due to experiences

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Behaviorism

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View that psychology should restrict its efforts to to studying observable behavior, not mental processes

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Person associated with behaviorism and experiment:

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John Watson; Little Albert Experiment

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Classical conditioning:

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Learning that occurs when 2 stimuli are repeatedly paired (involuntary behavior)

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Operant conditioning:

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Voluntary action with a consequence

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Types of Stimuli:

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US): Stimulus that causes automatic response
Neutral Stimulus (NS): Stimulus that doesn’t trigger a response
Conditioned Stimulus (CS): Learned stimulus

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Types of Responses:

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No Response (NR): No reaction
Unconditioned Response (UR): Automatic reaction
Conditioned Response (CR): Learned reaction

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Ivan Pavlov’s Experiment:

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Classically conditioned dogs to salivate at a stimulus such as a bell (expected food)

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Acquisition:

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Repeatedly pair neutral stimulus w/ unconditioned stimulus until a conditioned response is produced

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Extinction

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Conditioned stimulus no longer paired w/ unconditioned stimulus so conditioned response weakens/disappears

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Spontaneous Recovery

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Reappearance of conditioned response after rest period

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Generalization

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The tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli

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Discrimination

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Being able to differentiate between between conditioned stimulus and other stimulus

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High Order Conditioning

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Conditioned stimulus paired with neutral stimulus to create a second conditioned stimulus

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Rescorla and Contingency Theory

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-Showed that an organism can learn the predictability of a response
-This means that some information processing happens during classical conditioning

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Taste Aversion and Person Associated

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-Distaste for a particular taste or smell is associated with a negative reaction
-A.K.A Garcia Effect (named for John Garcia)

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Law of Effect

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Law of Effect:
-Good consequences→ Behavior increased
-Bad consequences→Behavior decreased

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Edward Thorndike

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Associated with Law of Effect; put cats into a box that needed to be opened; found that after opening the box the first time, cats got faster because they got fish waiting outside

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B.F Skinner’s Experiment

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Put rats in a box and good behavior got rewarded with food, if the rat didn’t do as it should, it got mildly shocked

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Shaping

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A technique using a series of positive reinforcements to create a more complex behavior

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Chaining

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Teaching subjects to perform number or responses successively in order to get a reward (e.g: running an objstacle course)

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Positive Reinforcement:

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Adding something good to increase good behavior

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Negative Reinforcement:

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Taking away something bad to increase good behavior

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Positive Punishment:

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Adding something bad to decrease bad behavior

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Negative Punishment:

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Taking away something good to decrease bad behavior

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A primary reinforcer is…

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Biological (food, water)

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A secondary reinforcer is…

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Learned (good grades, money)

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An immediate reinforcer….

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Occurs immediately

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A delayed reinforcer…

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Gives up a small reward now for a bigger one later (A.K.A delayed gratification)

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Continuous Occurence

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Behavior is reinforced everytime

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Partial Occurence

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Behavior is reinforced sometimes

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Fixed-Ratio Schedule

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Reinforced a certain amount of times

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Variable-Ratio Schedule

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Reinforced at an unpredictable amount of times

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Fixed-Interval Schedule

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Reinforced every so often

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Variable-Interval Schedule

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Reinforced at random times

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Biological Predispositions

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Easier to train natural behaviors w/ natural reinforcers

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Instinctive Drift:

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Animals stop performing learned behaviors and revert back to more instinctual behaviors

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Insight Learning and person associated

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Eureka moment-when you finally understand the solution to a problem (sudden realization); Wolfgang Kohler

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Latent Learning:

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-Learning that isn’t demonstrated until reward is present (Edward Tolman)
-Cognitive map →mental representation of environment

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Modeling:

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Modeling →Process of observing and imitating behavior

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Mirror Neurons:

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Fires when acting or observing others act

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Token Economies:

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-Every time people perform a desired behavior, they are given a token
-Periodically, they can trade the token for a variety of reinforces (e.j: Video games, elementary classrooms, etc.)

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Observational Learning

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Learning by observing others (social learning theory)

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Gender and emotion

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-Women generally surpass men at reading people’s emotional cues
-Women’s nonverbal sensitivity helps explain their greater emotional literacy
-Their skill at decoding others’ emotions may also contribute to their greater emotional responsiveness

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What is the most universal way of expressing emotions?

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Through facial expressions

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Ekman’s Facial Feedback Effect

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-Facial movement can influence emotional experience
-Ex: Smile if you want to be happy
(Consistent with the James-Lange Theory)

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What is catharsis?

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Reduced anger by releasing it through aggressive action or fantasy

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What is the feel-good-do-good phenomenon?

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You’re more likely to do good and help others out when you yourself feel good

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