Chap 7 Flashcards
Relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience
Learning
Learning about a single stimulus
Non associative learning
Decreased behavioural response to a stimulus
Habituation
Increased behavioral response to a stimulus
Sensitization
Learning that one event follows another
Classical conditions
Learning that a response will be followed by a particular consequence
Instrumental conditioning
Similar stimuli, similar response
Generalization
Instrumental conditioning aka
Operant conditioning
Operant chamber aka
Skinner box
removal of an unpleasant stimulus after a behavioural response
negative reinforcement
removal of a wanted pleasant stimulus after a behavioral response
omission training
reinforcement provided after a fixed number of responses
fixed ratio sched
reinforcement provided after an unpredictable no of resp
variable ratio sched
reinf provided after a certain amt of time
fixed interval sched
reinf provided after an unpredictable amt of time
variable interval sched