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| what a person wants, which motivates learning |
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| what a person notices, which provides a discriminative stimulus for learning |
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| what a person does, which can be learned |
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| list of all the responses a person could make in a given situation, arranged from most likely to least likely |
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| a person's most likely response in a given situation |
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| a response hierarchy after it has been modified by learning |
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| what a person gets as a result of a response in the learning sequence, which strengthens responses because of its drive-reducing effect |
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| a situation in which existing responses are not rewarded, which leads to change |
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| reduction in the frequency of a nonrewarded response |
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| return of a response that was previously extinguished |
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| occurance of a response to a stimulus other than the one that was a cue during learning |
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| responding only to particular cues |
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| the greater strengthening of responses that are immediately followed by reward; that is, delayed reward is less effective than immediate reward |
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| the greater weakening of responses that are most closely followed by punishment; that is, delayed punishment is less effective than immediate punishment |
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| tendency of responses that precede reward to occur earlier and earlier in the behavioral sequence |
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| learning by observing the actions of others |
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| a person's behavior being the same as that of a model, considering the cues and reinforcements as well as the response |
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| learning to behave in the same way as a model, but not in response to the same cues as the model, in order to be rewarded by perceived similarity to the model |
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| matched dependent behavior |
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| learning to make the same response as a model, in response to a cue from the model |
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| a situation in which cues for two incompatible responses are provided |
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| the greater tendency to approach a goal, the closer one is to it |
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| the greater tendency to avoid a goal, the closer one is to it |
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| approach-avoidance conflict |
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| conflict in which an organism simultaneously wishes to approach and to avoid the same goal |
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| avoidance-avoidance conflict |
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| conflict in which an organism must choose between two goals, both of which it finds undesirable, but is constrained from leaving the field (abandoning the situation) |
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| approach-approach conflict |
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| conflict in which an organism simultaneously wishes to approach two incompatible goals |
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| double approach-avoidance conflict |
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| conflict in which an organism must choose between two options, both of which have positive and negative aspects |
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| frustration-aggression hypothesis |
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| the hypothesis that frustration always leads to aggression, and aggression is always caused by frustration |
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| willfully putting thoughts out of consciousness |
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