Term
|
Definition
| The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consquences |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Any event or situation that evokes a response |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically - triggers a response (UR) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, an orginally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response (CR) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a (NS) and an (US) so that the (NS) begins triggering the (CS). In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response |
|
|
Term
| higher-order conditioning |
|
Definition
| a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an (US) does not follow a (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished (CR) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the (CS) to elicit similar responses |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a (CS) and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus |
|
|
