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Unit 5: Learning Flashcards

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Learning

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Acquiring new information/behaviors

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Habituates

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Decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure

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Associative Learning

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Learning that two events (or more) occur together

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Stimulus

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Event that evokes a response

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Cognitive Learning

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Learning gained by language, observed behavior, or etc

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Classical conditioning

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Learn to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

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Behaviorism

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Psychology is an objective science and should take place without referring to the mental processes

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Neutral stimuli (NS)

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Stimuli that elicit no response

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Unconditioned response (UR)

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Unlearned response to an unconditioned stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus (US)

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Stimulus that unconditionally triggers a response

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Conditioned response (CR)

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Learned response to a stimulus

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Conditioned stimulus (CS)

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A NS that, through association with a US, becomes something that triggers a CR

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Acquisition

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When you link a NS with a US

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Higher-order conditioning

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AKA second-order conditioning - CS is paired with new NS, creating a new CR

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Extinction

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CR starts disappearing when the US doesn’t follow the CS

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Spontaneous recovery

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Reappearance (after a delay) of an extinguished CR

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Generalization

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When CR is in place, a similar stimuli to trigger it

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Discrimination

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Ability to distinguish between CS’s and stimuli that don’t signal an US

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Operant conditioning

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Type of conditioning achieved through rewards and punishments

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Law of effect

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Rewarded behaviors will appear more often than punished behaviors

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Operant chamber

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Box that contained a key that an animal could manipulate to obtain a food or H2O reinforcer

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Reinforcement

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Event that strengthens a behavior

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Shaping

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Process of guiding actions toward desired behavior

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Discriminative Stimulus

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Stimulus that causes a response after the association with reinforcement

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Positive Reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors using new words

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Negative reinforcement

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Any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response

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Primary reinforcers

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Innately satisfying stimulus - biological needs

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Conditioned reinforcers

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Gains reinforcing power through association with a primary reinforcer

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Reinforcement schedules

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When reinforcement occurs

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Continuous reinforcement

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Reinforcement every time

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Partial (intermittent) reinforcement

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Reinforcing only sometimes

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Fixed-ratio schedule

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Reinforces response after specified number of responses

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Variable-ratio schedule

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Reinforces after unpredictable number of responses

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Fixed-interval schedules

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Reinforces after specified time

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Variable-interval schedule

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Reinforces after unpredictable time intervals

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Punishment

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Decreases behavior

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Biofeedback

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System that gives information on blood pressure or muscle tension

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Respondent behavior

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Reflex/Automatic response

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Operant behavior

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Punishments and rewards - environmental

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Cognitive map

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Mental ‘map’

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Latent learning

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Learning that occurs but you don’t know it until you use it

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Insight

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‘Eureka’ moment

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Intrinsic motivation

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Desire to do a behavior for your own sake

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Extrinsic motivation

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Operant conditioning motivation

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Coping

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Methods used to relieve stress

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Problem-focused coping

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Focusing on alleviating the problem when dealing with stress

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Emotional-focused coping

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Attending to emotional needs related to the reaction to stress instead of the problem itself

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Learned helplessness

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Resignation of uncontrollable threats

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External locus of control

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Chance determines our fate

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Internal locus of control

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You control your own fate

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Self-control

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Ability to delay gratification for long-term rewards

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Observational Learning

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Learning by observation

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Modeling

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Learning by observation imitating behavior

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Mirror neurons

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Brain mirrors another’s actions when observed - frontal lobe

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Prosocial behavior

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‘Good’ behavior that is helpful

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