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| a change in an organism’s behavior due to experience |
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| a change in an organism’s behavior due to experience |
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| a change in an organism’s behavior due to experience |
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| a type of learning in which one laearns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate |
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| a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response |
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| the unlearned, naturally occuring response to the unconditioned stimulus (ex: salivation when food is in the mouth) |
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| an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response |
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| the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus |
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| the initial learning stage in classical conditioning in which an association between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus take place |
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| higher-order conditioning |
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| a new neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus now |
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| the diminishing of a CR, occurs in classical conditioning when an US does not follow a CS; occurs in operant conditiong when a response is no longer reinforced |
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| the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished CR |
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| the tendency, once a response has been condition, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses |
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| the learned ability to distinguish between a condition stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an US |
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| a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher |
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| behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus |
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| behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences |
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| thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely |
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| an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior |
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| any event that strengthens the behavior it follows |
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