Unit VI: Learning Module 26

Question 1

Classical conditioning

Answer 1

We learn to expect and prepare for certain events such as food or pain

Question 2

Opperent conditioning

Answer 2

We learn to repeat tasks that bring us rewards and avoid tasks that have unwanted or negative results

Question 3

Cognitive learning

Answer 3

Through language we learn things we have neither experienced nor observed

Question 4

Habituate

Answer 4

Decreasing responsevness with repeated exposure to a stimulus

Question 5

associative learning

Answer 5

learning that certain events occur together. The events may be 2 stimuli or a response and consequence

Question 6

Respondent behavior

Answer 6

behavior that occurs as an automatic response to stimulus

Question 7

Opperent behavior

Answer 7

behavior that operates on the enviornment, producing conseqences

Question 8

classical conditioning

Answer 8

a type of learning in which we link 2 or more stimuli as a result, to illastrate Pavlov’s experiment, the first stimulant comes to elicit behavior in anticipation of the second stimulus

Question 9

behaviorism

Answer 9

the view that psych should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes

Question 10

Neutral stimuli

Answer 10

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

Question 11

unconditioned stimulus

Answer 11

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Question 12

conditioned response

Answer 12

learned response to a previously neutural stimulus

Question 13

conditioned stimulus

Answer 13

an originally neutral stimulus that after association with a unconditional stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response

Question 14

aquisition

Answer 14

associating an neutral stimulus with the unconditonal stimuli so that the NS begins triggering the CR

Question 15

Extinction

Answer 15

deminished responding which occurs id the conditioned stimulus appears repeatedly by itself

Question 16

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 16

the appearance of a formerly extinguished response following a rest period

Question 17

generalization

Answer 17

the tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar to a conditioned stimuli

Question 18

discrimination

Answer 18

the learned ability to distinguish between CS and irrelevant stimuli