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| A systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience |
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| A theory of learning that focuses soley on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of mental activity |
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| Learning that occurs when we make a connections, or an association, between two events. |
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| Learning that occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior |
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| Learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associtated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar responses |
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| A stimuls that produces a response without prior learning |
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| A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits a conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned response |
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| A unlearned reaction that is automatically elicited by the unconditioned stimulus |
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| The learned response to the conditioned stimulus that eventually elicits a conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus |
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| The intial learning of the connection between the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus when the two stimuli are paired |
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| The tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to the conditioned response |
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| Discrimination(Classical) |
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| The process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others |
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| The weaking of the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is absent |
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| The process in classical conditioning by which a conditioned response can recur after a time delay, without further conditioned. |
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| The recovery of the conditioned respone when the oragnism is placed in novel context |
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| A classical conditioning procedure for changing the relationship between a conditioned stimulus and its conditioned response |
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| A form of treatment that consists of repeated pairings of a stimulus with a very unpleasant stimulus |
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| Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations |
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| Also called instrumental conditioning, a form of asssociative learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probablility of the behavior's occurence |
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| Thorndike's law stating that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are strengthened and that behaviors followed by negative outcomes are weakened. |
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| Rewarding approximations of a desired behavior |
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| The process by which a rewarding stimulus or event following a paticular behavior increases the probablility that the behavior will happen again |
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| An increase in the frequency of a behavior in response to the subsequent presentation of something that is good |
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| An organinsm's learning that it can altogether avoid a negative stimulus by making a paticular response |
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| An organism's learning through experience with unaviadable negative stimuli that it has no control over negative outcomes |
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| A reinforcer that is inately satisfying; one that does not take any learning on the organism's part to make it pleasurable |
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| A reinforcer that acquires its positive value through an oraganism's part to make it pleasurable |
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| Performing a reinforced behavior in a different situtationg. |
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| Responding appropriately to stimuli that signal that a behavior will or will not be reinforced |
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| Decreases in the frequency of a behavior when the is no longer reinforced |
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| Schedules of Reinforcement |
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| Specific patterns that determine when a behavior will be reinforced |
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| A consequence that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur |
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| The presentation of an unpleasant stimulus following a giben behavior in order to decrease the frequency of that behavior |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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| Also called bahvior modification, the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior |
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| A form of problem solving in which the organisms develops a sudden insight into or understanding of a problem |
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| The tendency of animals to revert to instinctive behavior that interferes with learning |
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| The species specific, biological predispositon to learn in certain ways but not others |
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