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| Individuals learn by association, pairing automatic responses to new stimuli |
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| A stimulus that produces automatic physiological and/or emotional responses |
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| The automatic response to an unconditioned stimulus |
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| A stimulus that does not have a natural automatic response associated to it that is then paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a response |
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| A response that has been learned through classical conditioning |
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| The tendency for a new stimulus that is similar to the original stimulus to produce a similar response |
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| The ability to respond to certain stimuli but not to other, similar stimuli |
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| Reinforcing or punishing produced behaviors to train and direct learning |
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| The process of applying consequences with the goal of increasing that behavior |
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| Reinforcement that uses something that lacks inherent value but can be used in exchange for things that have inherent value |
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| A method that consists of making a written or verbal contract between the teacher and a student |
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| A stimulus is presented after a behavior and the behavior increases as a result |
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| A stimulus is removed after a behavior and the behavior increases as a result |
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| Teaching new behaviors by reinforcing successive approximations towards the target behavior |
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| Using signals to indicate that a certain response is desirable or undesirable |
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| Gradual disappearance of a learned response |
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| Presenting a stimulus after a behavior that reduces that behavior |
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| Removing a stimulus after a behavior that reduces that behavior |
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| A written or verbal contract as a group or a whole class, where the students agree to behave in a mutually acceptable way and the teacher agrees to provide a corresponding, mutually acceptable incentive. |
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