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| relatively permanent change in behavior and mental processes due to experience |
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| Observation: Dogs salivate long before receiving food
Unconditioned Stimulus: Food
Unconditioned Response: Salivation
Neutral Stimulus: Sound
Conditioned Response:Salivating When hearing Sound
Conditioned Stimulus: Linking Food to Sound |
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| "Little Albert" Study with Rats and Sound
Unconditioned Stimulus:Rat
Unconditioned Response:Fear
Neutral Stimulus: Sound
Conditioned Response: Fear of Rat
Conditioned Stimulus: Linking Sound to Rat |
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| You return to the dentist's office for routine checkups, with no extractions, and your fear(CR) gradually disappears |
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| Example of Spontaneous Recovery |
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| While watching a movie depicting oral surgery, your previous fear (CR) suddenly and temporarily returns |
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| Example of Discrimination |
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| You learn that your physician's office is not associated with the painful tool extraction (UCS). |
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| Example of Generalization |
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| You learn to fear most dentists' offices and other places that smell like them. |
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| Difference between Operant conditioning and Classical Conditioning |
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| Classical conditioning- based on what happens BEFORE we INVOLUNTARILY respond.
Operant Conditioning-AFTER we VOLUNTARILY peform a behavior |
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| Known for extending Thorndike's law of effect
Emphasized that reinforcement and punishment are always defined after the fact |
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| Example of Positive Reinforcement |
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| You study hard and receive a good grade on your psychology exam |
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| Example of Negative Reinforcement |
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| You're allowed to skip the final exam because you did so well on your unit exams |
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| Example of Positive Punishment |
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| You must run four extra laps in your gym class because you were late |
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| Example of Negative Punishment |
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| You're excluded from gym class because you were late |
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| Side effects of punishment |
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| Passive Aggressiveness, avoidance, Inappropriate modeling, Temporary, suppression versus elimination, learned helplessness, increased aggression |
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| How can physical punishment lead to an escalation of aggression on the part of the person doing the punishing? |
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| A circle of both the punisher and recipient are reinforced in inappropriate behavior |
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| Every correct response is reinforced
faster initial learning |
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| Some, but not all, correct responses are reinforced
Better maintenance |
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| Reinforcing when kid makes bed, even sloppily, later reinforcing when kid makes bed neatly without wrinkles |
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| Best method to follow when applying operant conditioning in your life |
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| Reinforcing appropriate behavior, extinguish inappropriate behavior, save punishment for most extreme cases |
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| Involuntary bodily process(bloodpressure/heartrate) is recorded, and information is fed back to an organism to increase voluntary control over that bodily function |
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| Learning new behaviors of information by watching and imitating others |
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| Procedure: Have kids watch live adult model kick play with doll
Results: Aggressive with doll than kids who didn't see |
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