Unit 6 Learning Flashcards
Process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors
Learning
An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
Habituation
Learning that certain events occur together
Associative learning
Any event or situation that evokes a response
Stimulus
Acquisition of mental information whether by observing events by watching others or through language
Cognitive learning
Type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
Classical conditioning
The view that psychology
Behaviorism
A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning
Neutral stimulus
An unlearned naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned response
A stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response
Unconditioned stimulus
Learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
Conditioned response