Unit 6 Vocabulary (Learning and language) Flashcards by Sydney Haddrill | Brainscape

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Aversion therapy

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Associating something undesirable with unpleasantness to get rid of it

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Classical conditioning

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Linking stimuli to anticipate events

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Cognitive map

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Mental layout of experiment

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Conditioned response

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Learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

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Conditioned stimulus

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Once neutral, now learned stimulus

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Continuous reinforcement

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Reinforcing response whenever it happens

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Discriminative stimulus

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Operant conditioning stimulus that gets response

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Extinction (Classical conditioning)

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Diminishing of a constant response

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Fixed interval schedule

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Reinforcement after set time

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Fixed ration schedule

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Reinforcement after set number of responses

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Instinctive drift

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Instinct to getting in the way of conditioning

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Latent learning

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Learning that’s only shown with an incentive

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Law of effect (Thorndike)

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Positive consequence increases

Negative consequence decreases

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Learned Helplessness

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Hopelessness learned by repeated aversion

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Learning

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The process of getting new information or behaviors

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Negative reinforcement

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Stopping negative stimuli to increase behavior

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Observational learning

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Learning by observing others

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Operant conditioning

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Learning with consequences

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Partial reinforcement

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Reinforcing response part of time

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Positive reinforcement

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Increasing behaviors by giving something good

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Primary reinforcers

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Reinforcers that satisfy biological need

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Punishment

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Consequence that decreases behavior

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Reflex

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Automatic response to sensory stimulus

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Reinforcement

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Increases behavior

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Schedule of reinforcement

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Rules for presenting consequences

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Secondary reinforcers

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Reinforcers we’ve had to learn are good

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Shaping

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Using reinforcement to get desired behavior

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Spontaneous recovery

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Response comes back

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Stimulus discrimination

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Response is only to certain stimulus

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Stimulus generalization

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Stimulus evokes similar responses

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Unconditioned response

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Naturally occurring response to stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Stimulus naturally triggering response

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Variable interval schedule

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Reinforcement at unpredictable time intervals

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Variable ratio schedule

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Reinforcement after unpredictable number of responses

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Language

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Method of human communication

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Morpheme

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Unit of language that can’t be further divided

Has meaning

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Phoneme

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Units of sound for distinguishing words

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Semantics

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The meaning of a word or phrase

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Syntax

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Creation of well-formed sentences

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Telegraphic speech

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Two – word language of children