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| Systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience |
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| Theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of thinking, wishing, hoping |
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| Learning that occurs when we make a connection, or an association between 2 events |
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| Occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior |
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| Initial learning of the connection between unconditioned stimulus and conditioned stimulus when the 2 are paired |
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| Generalization (classical conditioning) |
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| Tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a response that is similar to the conditioned response |
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| Discrimination (classical conditioning) |
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| process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others |
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| Extinction (classical conditioning) |
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| Weakening of the conditioned response when US is absent |
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| Process in classical conditioning by which a conditioned response can recur after a time delay, without further conditioning |
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| Recovery of the conditioned response when the organism is placed in a novel context. |
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| C.C. procedure for changing the relationship between a CS and its conditioned |
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| 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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| Associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probability of the behaviors occurrence. |
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| States 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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| A reinforcer following a particular increases the probability that the behavior will happen again. |
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| Increase in the frequency of a behavior in response to the subsequent presentation of something that is good. |
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| An increase in the frequency upon the removal of something that is unpleasant |
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| Organism's learning that it can altogether avoid a negative stimulus by making a particular response |
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| Organism's learning that through experience with unavoidable negative stimuli that is has no control over negative outcomes. |
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| One that is innately satisfying. One that doesn't take learning to make it pleasurable |
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| Acquires its positive value through an organism's experience. |
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| Generalization (operant conditioning) |
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| Performing a reinforced behavior in a different |
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| Discrimination (operant conditioning) |
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| Responding appropriately to stimuli that signal that a behavior will or will not be reinforced. |
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| Extinction (operant conditioning) |
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| Decreases in the frequency of a behavior when the behavior 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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| Consequence that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur |
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| Presentation of an unpleasant stimulus following a given behavior in order to decrease the frequency |
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| Removal of a positive stimulus following a given behavior in order to decrease the frequency of that behavior |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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| The use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior |
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| Implicit learning. Unreinforced learning that is not immediately reflected in behavior |
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| A form of problem solving in which the organism develops a sudden insight into or understanding of a problem's solution |
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| Tendency of animals to revert to instinctive behavior that interferes with learning |
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| Biological predisposition to learn in certain ways but not others |
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