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PSY-304 Introduction to Learning Behavior
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
09/23/2014

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Term
Psychology
Definition
The scicnce of behavior
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Goal of Psychology
Definition
Description, prediction, and control of behavior
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Independent Variable
Definition
Variable you have control over, what you can choose and manipulate
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Dependent Variable
Definition
What you measure in the experiment and what is affected during the experiment
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Hypothetico-Deductive
Definition
Hypothesis -----> Data
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Empirico-Inductive
Definition
Makes broad generalizations from specific observations
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Event
Definition
Takes place in time
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Construct
Definition
Any complex psychological concept
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Descriptive Construct
Definition
Used to describe the group
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Inferential Construct
Definition
Used to make predictions or inferences about the group
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Reflex
Definition
Stimulus and response as a unit
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Habituation
Definition
A decrease in response strength due to repeated elicitations
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Sensitization
Definition
An increase in response strength due to repeated elicitations
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Potentiation
Definition
An increase in response strength due to the presence of another stimulus
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Recovery
Definition
Increase in response strength due to a period without elicitations
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Magnitude
Definition
Intensity
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Probability
Definition
Likelihood of something happening
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Duration
Definition
Length of time that an individual repeatedly or continuously performs a certain behavior
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Latency (Reaction Time)
Definition
The amount of time between a stimulus and a response
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Frequency (Rate of response)
Definition
Events/Time
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Period
Definition
1/Frequency= Time between events
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Topography
Definition
The form of the response (what it looks like)
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Baseline
Definition
The condition of Which you hold your stable variation
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ABA or Reversal Design
Definition
A type of single subject design that involves repeated alternations between a baseline and a treatment period
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Pavlovian Conditioning
Definition
The process in whereby one stimulus that does not elicit a certain response is associated with a second stimulus that does; as a result, the first stimulus also comes to elicit a response
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Pavlovian Conditioning also known as
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Respondent, Classical, Type-S
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Standard Pavlovian Conditioning (AB) Format
Definition
CS followed by UCS elicits UCR
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Trace Conditioning Format
Definition
CS & UCS are separated by time
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Delay Conditioning Format
Definition
The onset of the CS precedes the onset of the UCS and the 2 stimuli overlap
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Backward Conditioning Format
Definition
Standard Pavlovian conditioning process backwards. This does not work
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Simultaneous Conditioning Format
Definition
UCS is the passage of time
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Conditioned Taste Aversion (CTA)
Definition
Occurs when illness ensues after consuming food
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Selective Association
Definition
Not all classically conditioned associations can be acquired
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CS Pre-exposure Effect
Definition
Subject experiences the CS prior to introducing it as a CS. The familiar stimulus is now more difficult to condition (Latent inhibition)
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Sensory Preconditioning
Definition
When one stimulus is conditioned as a CS, another stimulus with which it was previously associated can also become a CS
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Blocking
Definition
The presence of an established CS interferes with conditioning a new CS
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Overshadowing
Definition
One CS will sometimes overshadow the other and not produce the conditioned response
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Extinction
Definition
The process whereby a conditioned response can be weakened or eliminated when the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the US
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Breland Effect (Instinctual Drift)
Definition
Tendency of an animal  to revert to  instinctive behaviors  that interfere with a  conditioned  response
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Experimental Control
Definition
The group that does not receive the treatment
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Salience or Saliency
Definition
The state or quality by which it stands out relative to its neighbors
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Rescorla-Wagner Theory
Definition
A mathematical model to explain the amount of learning that occurs on each trial of Pavlovian learning

Learning will occur if what happens on the trial does not match the expectation of the organism

The expectation on any given trial is based on the predictive value of all of the stimuli present
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AB Design
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ABA Design
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Multiple Sequential Withdrawl
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Changing Criterion
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Altering Treatments
Definition
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Multiple Baseline
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Baysian analysis
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The overall accuracy =                                                          


sensitivity x actual probability

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(Sensitivity x Act prob) + (F.P. Prob. x Act. Prob. of not being in the sample)


 


.95{Sensitivity} x .02 {Guilty}

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(.95 x .02) + (.1 x .98{innocent})

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