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| in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response; in operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response |
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| higher-order conditioning |
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| procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioned experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second conditioned stimulus (second order conditioning) |
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| diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced |
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| reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response |
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| the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar resonses |
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| in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus |
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| received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for his pioneering research in conditioning and learning and was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
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| once you've had a bad experience after eating this food (whether related or not) you tend to avoid this food so that it doesn't happen again |
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| men found women more attractive and sexually desirable when framed in red |
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| biopsychosocial influences on learning |
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| our learning results not only from environmental experiences, but also from cognitive and biological influences |
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| admitted to "going beyond my facts" when offering his famous boast: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specific world to bring them up in and i'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist i might select.... regardless of his talents...." |
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| originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an US, comes to trigger a conditioned response |
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| the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus |
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| stimulus that unconditionally--naturally and automatically--triggers a response |
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| the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (salivation when food is in the mouth) |
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| view that psych should be objective science that suidies behavior without reference to mental processes |
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| a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience |
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| a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events |
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| learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences |
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