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Unit 6: Conditioning and Learning Flashcards

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The finding that no conditioning occurs to a stimulus if it combined with a previously conditioned stimulus during conditioning trials.

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Blocking

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Suggests that information, surprise value, or prediction error is important in conditioning

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Blocking

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To sort or arrange different items into classes or categories

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Categorize

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Procedure where neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus resulting in the conditioned stimulus beginning to elicit a conditioned response

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Classical conditioning

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In classical conditioning, a conditioned response that opposes, rather than is the same as the unconditioned response.

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Conditioned compensatory response

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often seen in conditioning when drugs are used as unconditional stimuli

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Conditioned compensatory response

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Response that is elicited by the conditioned stimulus after classical conditioning has taken place

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Conditioned response (CR)

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Initially neutral stimulus that elicits a conditioned response after it has been associated with an unconditioned stimulus

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Conditioned stimulus (CS)

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Stimuli that are in the background whenever learning occurs

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Context

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In operant conditioning it is a stimulus that signals whether the response will be reinforced. “sets the occasion” for the operant response

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Discriminative stimulus

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Learned behavior decreases when conditioned stimulus occurs and is presented without the unconditioned stimulus

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Extinction (Classical conditioning)

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When the behavior is no longer reinforced

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Extinction (Instrumental conditioning)

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Classical or Pavlovian conditioning where the conditioned stimulus (CS) is associated with an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US). ex: foot shock

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Fear conditioning

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Consequence of learning CS comes to evoke fear

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Fear conditioning

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Thought to be involved in the development of anxiety disorder in humans

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Fear conditioning

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CS

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Conditioned Stimulus

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Instrumental behavior that is influenced by the animals knowledge of the association between the behavior and its consequence and the current value of the consequence.

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Goal-directed behavior

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Instrumental behavior that occurs automatically in the presence of a stimulus and is no longer influenced by the animals knowledge of the value of the reinforcer

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Habit

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Process in which animals learn about the relationships between their behaviors and their consequences.

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Instrumental conditioning

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Also known as Operant Conditioning

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Instrumental Conditioning

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Idea that instrumental or operant responses are influenced by their effects.

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Law of effect

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Responses that are followed by a pleasant state of affairs will be strengthened and those that are followed by discomfort will be weakened

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Law of effect

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Refers to the idea that operant or instrumental behaviors are lawfully controlled by their consequences

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Law of effect

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Learning by observing the behavior of others

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Observational Learning

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A behavior that is controlled by its consequences.

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Operant

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When the outcome of a conditioning trial is different from that which is predicted by the conditioned stimuli that are present on the trial

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Prediction error

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When the US is surprising

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Prediction Error

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Idea that organisms evolutionary history can make it easy to learn a particular association.

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Preparedness

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A stimulus that decreases the strength of an operant behavior when it is made a consequence of the behavior

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Punisher

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Mathematical rule that states the effectiveness of a reinforcer at strengthening an operant response depends on the amount of reinforcement earned for all alternative behaviors.

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Quantitative law of effect

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Any consequence of a behavior that strengthens the behavior or increases the likelihood that it will be performed it again

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Reinforcer

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Recovery of an extinguished response that occurs when the context is changed after extinction. Especially strong when the context involves return to the context in which conditioning originally occurred.

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Renewal Effect

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Can occur after extinction in either classical or instrumental conditioning

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Renewal Effect

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The theory that people can learn new responses and behaviors by observing the behavior of others

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Social Learning Theory

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Authorities that are the targets for observation and who model behaviors

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Social Models

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Recovery of an extinguished response that occurs with the passage of time after extinction.

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Spontaneous recovery

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Can occur after extinction in either classical or instrumental conditioning

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Spontaneous recovery

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When an operant behavior is controlled by a stimulus that precedes it

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Stimulus Control

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The phenomenon in which a taste is paired with sickness and this causes the organism to reject and dislike that taste in the future

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Taste aversion learning

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In classical conditioning, an innate response that is elicited by a stimulus before (or in the absence of) conditioning

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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In classical conditioning, the stimulus that elicits the response before conditioning occurs

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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Learning that occurs by observing the reinforcement or punishment of another person

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Vicarious reinforcement

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A reinforcer might not be particularly good at encouraging a behaviors if many other similar behaviors are also given similar rewards. This is the main point of the ___________ law of effect

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Quantitative

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After their relationship ends, Mary is reminded of her ex constantly. Over time she stops associating everything she sees with her ex. This demonstrates ________

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Extinction

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Effects that increase behaviors are called reinforcers; effects that decrease behaviors are called:

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punishers

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In Ivan Pavlov’s original experiment, the __________ served as an unconditioned stimulus because it naturally elicited a response from the dogs.

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Food

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In Pavlovian conditioning, a fundamental premise is that the only thing that a conditional stimulus can cause is a:

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Conditioned Response

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Lilah chews mint bubble gum every day. After she gets the flu and feels sick she hates the taste of mint. This is an example of:

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Taste Aversion Conditioning

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Rita watches Kalie constantly, often imitating her behaviors. Kalie serves as a _________ for Rita.

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Social Model

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US

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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CS

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Conditioned Stimulus

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Training protocol that occurs after conditioning during which the US is no longer presented with the CS

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A procedure (Extinction)

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CR

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Conditioned Response

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Psychological orientation focused on the measurement of observable behavior rather than internal processes such as thoughts

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Behaviorism

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Studied salivary responses in dogs

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Dr. Ivan Pavlov

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