Unit 4: Slideshows

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

Durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience

Question 2

3 types of conditioning

Answer 2

Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, Cognitive learning

Question 3

How long do habitual behaviors take to develop

Answer 3

About 66 days

Question 4

Stimulus

Answer 4

Event or situation that evokes a response

Question 5

Classical conditioning

Answer 5

Type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

Question 6

Unconditioned Stimulus

Answer 6

Evokes a natural response w/out conditioning

Question 7

Unconditioned Response

Answer 7

An unlearned reaction to unconditioned response

Question 8

Conditioned Stimulus

Answer 8

A previously neutral stimulus that through conditioning evokes a conditioned response

Question 9

Conditioned Response

Answer 9

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning

Question 10

Neutral stimulus vs. Conditioned Stimulus

Answer 10

In classical conditioning, when used together with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus.

Question 11

Extinction

Answer 11

Gradual weakening (eventually disappearance) of conditioned response tendency. Conditioned fears are hard to extinguish

Question 12

Spontaneous Recovery

Answer 12

Reappearance of extinguished response

Question 13

Generalization

Answer 13

Similar stimuli produces similar response

Question 14

Discrimination

Answer 14

Learned, overtraining, adaptive Pavlov’s dogs responded to a specific tone

Question 15

Higher-Order Conditioning

Answer 15

A new neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus