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| the stage in a classical conditioning experiment during which the conditioned response is first elicited by the conditioned stimulus |
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| a form of learning in which animals acquire responses that allow them to avoid aversive stimuli before they begin |
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| biological constraint on learning |
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| any limitation on an organism's capacity to learn that is caused by the inherited sensory , response, or cognitive capabilities of members of a given species |
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| a type of learning in which a behavior comes to be elicited by a stimulus that has a acquired its power through an association with a biologically significant stimulus |
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| a mental representation of physical space |
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| in classical conditioning, a formerly neutral stimulus that has become a reinforcer |
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| in classical conditioning, a response elicited by some previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus |
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| in classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response |
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| a form of learning in which animals acquire a response that will allow them to escape from an aversive stimulus |
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| in conditioning, the weakening of a conditioned association in the abscence of a reinforcer or unconditioned stimulus |
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| a schedule of reinforcement in which a reinforcer is delivered for the first response made after a fixed period of time |
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| a schedule of reinforcement in which a reinforcer is delivered for the first response after a fixed number of responses |
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| the automatic extension of conditioned responding to similar stimuli that have never been paired with unconditioned stimulus |
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| a decrease in behavioral response when a stimulus is presented repeatedly |
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| the tendency for learned behavior to drift toward instinctual behavior over time |
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| learning performance distinction |
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| the difference btwn what has been learned and what is expressed in overt beavior |
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| a behavior is followed by a removal of an appetitive stimulus, decreasing the probability of that behavior |
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| a behavior is followed by the removal a bad stimulus |
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| the process of learning new responses by watching the behavior of another |
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| learning in which the probability of a response is changed by a change in its consequences |
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| when a behavior no longer produces predictable consequences, it returns to the level of occurence it had before operant conditioning |
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| the behavioral principal that states that responses acquired under intermittent rienforcement are more difficult to extinguish than those acquired with continuous reinforcement |
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| bad stimulus is given for a certain behavior |
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| given a good stimulus for behavior |
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| biologically determined reinforcer, water food |
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| effects of physical punishment |
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| subject grows hate and fear of punisher |
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| schedule of reinforcement |
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| a pattern of giving and withholding reinforcement |
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| an increase in behavioral response when a stimulus is presented repeatedly |
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| behavioral method that praises responses that match desired outcome |
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| used skinner boxes to train pidgeons to amazing things |
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| the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after a rest period |
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| organism learns to avoid a food that causes them to get sick. only takes 1 trial |
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| the means by which an organism learns, tht in the presence of some stimuli but not others, their behavior has an affect on the environment |
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| untrained response to stimulus |
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| stimulus that leads to unlearned response |
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| scars children and breaks ethics. sounds gong in presence on animal to scare child |
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represents change in knowledge and behavior
occurs as a result of experience |
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| different stimulus shows different responses |
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Law of Affect
connect stimuli with response leading to strengthened outcome |
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| proposes idea of combination classical and operant conditioning |
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