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Habituation

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Response decreases with repeated exposure to stimulus

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Learning

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Acquiring new and enduring information/behaviors

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Associative Learning

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Learning that 2 events occur together

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Stimulus

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Event/situation that causes a response

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Respondent behavior

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Behavior that occurs automatically as a response to a stimulus

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Operant behavior

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Behavior that operates on the environment, producing a response

Learn to say please to get stuff

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Cognitive learning

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Acquisition of mental info
Observing events, others, or through language

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Classical conditioning

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Linking 2+ stimuli and ANTICIPATING events

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Ivan Pavlov

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Classical conditioning
Dog bell = food
Laid the foundation for behaviorism

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Behaviorism

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Psych should be studied without reference to mental processes

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John B Watson

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Behaviorism
Little Albert experiment - trained a baby to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud sound (association made him for other white furry objects)

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Neutral Stimulus (NS)

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Classical conditioning
Stimulus that evokes no response BEFORE conditioning

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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Classical conditioning
Naturally occurring response to an UNCONDITIONED stimulus

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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Classical conditioning
Stimulus that unconditionally evokes an UNCONDITIONED response

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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Learned response to a previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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Classical conditioning
Associated with an unconditioned stimulus that triggers a conditioned response

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Acquisition

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A neutral stimulus is linked with an unconditioned stimulus

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Higher-order conditioning

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A conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus
Creates a second (weaker) conditioned stimulus

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Extinction

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Diminishing of a conditioned response

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Spontaneous recovery

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The reappearance, after a pause, of a previously extinguished conditioned response

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Generalization

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Tendency to respond to stimuli that’s similar to the conditioned stimulus

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Discrimination

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Being able to distinguish between a condition stimulus and a similar stimulus

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Operant conditioning

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Learning
More likely to occur if followed by reinforcer
Less likely to occur if followed by a punisher

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Law of effect

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Thorndike
Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely
Behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely

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Operant chamber

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AKA Skinner box
Has bar/key that animal can manipulate to obtain food/water

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Reinforcement

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Operant conditioning
Event that strengthens behavior that follows

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Shaping

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Operant conditioning
When reinforcers guide behavior closer and closer to desired behavior

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Discriminative Stimulus

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Operan conditioning
Stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement

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Positive Reinforcement (PR)

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Operant conditioning
Something good is presented, which encourages the behavior in the future

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Negative Reinforcement (NR)

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Operant conditioning
Something bad is removed or avoided, watching courage is the occurrence of the behavior

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Positive Punishment (PP)

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Operant conditioning
Something bad is presented, which which discourages the behavior in the future

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Negative Punishment (NP)

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Operant conditioning
Something good is removed, which discourages the behavior in the future

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Primary reinforcer

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A reinforcer that satisfies a biological need

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Conditioned (secondary) reinforcer

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AKA Secondary Reinforcer
Stimulus that gains reinforcing power through association with primary reinforcer

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Reinforcement schedule

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Pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced

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Continuous reinforcement schedule

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Desired response is reinforced every time it occurs

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Partial (intermittent) reinforcement schedule

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Reinforcing a response only part of the time
Slower

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Fixed-RATIO schedule

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Response reinforced a set number of times

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Variable-RATIO schedule

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Reinforces response after an unpredictable number of responses

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Fixed-INTERVAL schedule

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Reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed

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Variable-INTERVAL schedule

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Reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals

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Punishment

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Event that tends to decrease the behavior that it follows

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Biofeedback

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Receiving info regarding subtle physiological state
Ex. Blood pressure or muscle tension

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Preparedness

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Biological predisposition to learn associations

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Biological influences of learning

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Genetic predisposition
Unconditioned responses
Adaptive responses
Neural mirroring

Humans - primary/secondary
Animals - primary

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Psychological influences on learning

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Previous experiences
Predict ability of associations
Generalization
Discrimination
Expectations

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Social-cultural influences on learning

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Culturally learned preferences
Motivation, affected by presence of others
Modeling

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Instinctive drift

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Tendency of learned behaviors to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns

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Latent learning

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Learning that just happens

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Cognitive map

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Mental representation of the layout of one’s environment

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Insight

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Sudden realization to a problem’s solution

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Intrinsic motivation

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Learning for learning’s sake

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Extrinsic motivation

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Learning in order to obtain a reward

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Problem-focused coping

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Attempting to alleviate stress directly
Changing the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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Attempting to alleviate stress by taking care of emotional needs
Avoiding/ignoring stressor

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Personal control

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Sense of controlling environment rather than feeling helpless

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Learned helplessness

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People/animals eventually give up with repeated exposure to aversive events

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External locus of control

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Perception that outside factors control your fste

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Internal locus of control

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Perception that you control your own fste

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Self-control

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Ability to control impulses for a short delay of time

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Bobo Doll Experiment

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Children who were exposed to the sight of an adult woman beating up an inflatable clown resulted in the children also taking their rage out on the clown

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Observational learning

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AKA Social learning
Learning by observing others

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Modeling

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Process of observing/imitating a specific behavior

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Mirror neurons

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When uou watch someone do something, your brain acts like you are doing it yourself

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Imitation

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Copying what you see

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Prosocial behavior

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When you watch someone do something nice, you are more likely to do something nice

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Antisocial behavior

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If you’re surrounded by bad behavior, it makes you more likely to act out

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Albert Bandura

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Social learning theory
Bobo doll experiment
Found that learning happens by observing others and modeling their behaviors

69
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Robert Rescorla

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Contingency theory
Expand it on Pavlov’s work
Studied frequency of associations and anticipation

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B.F. Skinner

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Operant conditioning
Use reinforcer/consequences to change behaviors
Skinner box

71
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Edward Thorndike

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Learning theory
Law of effect
Studied how cats, learn to escape from a puzzle box
Work led to development of operant conditioning

72
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Edward Tolman

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Latent learning
Trained rats to run a maze without a reward

73
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John Garicia

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Classical conditioning
Conditioned taste aversion
Found that if a rat got sick from a food, it will avoid that food forever

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