UNIT 6 VOCAB AND CONCEPTS- LEARNING Flashcards
The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors
Learning
An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
Habituation
Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (in operant conditioning)
Associative learning
Any event or situation that evokes a response
Stimulus
e acquisition of mental information whether by observing events by watching others or through language
Cognitive learning
A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli to anticipate events
Classical conditioning
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 2
Behaviorism
In classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (such as food in the mouth )
Unconditioned response
In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically- triggers a response
Unconditioned stimulus
In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus
Conditioned response
In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditional stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus
In classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a natural stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response
Acquisition
A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience s paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. For example, an animal that has learned that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the ton and begin responding to the light alone (second order conditioning)
Higher order conditioning
The diminished of a conditioned response occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurring in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced
Extinction
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
Spontaneous recovery
- Neutral stimulus needs to come before the UCS for conditioning to occur
- Ideally the time between the two stimulus should be abt half a second apart-no more than a couple
- It must be reliably predicted bu the subject in order to make the connection, thus the CS (NS) must reliably predict the presentation of the UCS
Acquisition
The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
Generalization
In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus
Discrimination
Type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
Operant conditioning
Thorndike’s principle that behaviors filled by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
Law of effect
In operant conditioning, research, a chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain food or water reinforcer; attached devices record the animals rate of bar pressing or key pecking
Operant chamber
