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Chapter 5: Learning Flashcards

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What is learning?

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Permanent change in behavior, thoughts, or feelings that result from experience

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What is classical conditioning?

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One stimulus comes to signal the occurrence of the other

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Give an example of classical conditioning

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Shaking canister of dog food, dog runs to bowl, sound mean they will get fed

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What is Pavlov’s classical conditioning?

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The sound of a bell makes dogs salivate

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What is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?

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Stimulus that reliably elicits a response

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What is the unconditioned response (UCR)?

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Response naturally elicited by UCS

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What is the conditioned stimulus (CS)?

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Neutral stimulus comes to elicit a new response

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What is the conditioned response (CR)?

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Response that CS elicits after conditioning

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What is the UCS in Pavlov’s experiment?

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Dog food

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What is the UCR in Pavlov’s experiment?

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Salivation as result of dog food

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What is the CS in Pavlov’s experiment?

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The bell

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What is the CR in Pavlov’s experiment?

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Salivation as result of bell

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What terms have to happen in order for classical conditioning to occur?

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Timing and consistency

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What is acquisition?

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The learning phase

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What is extinction?

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The “unlearning phase”, the CR is weakened or extinguished

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What is spontaneous recovery?

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The CR will reappear after rest period

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Give an example of spontaneous recovery

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Breakup with a boy and hear “your song”

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What is generalization?

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Stimuli similar to the CS elicits the CR

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Give an example of generalization

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You love your moms lasagna, so you order it at a restaurant assuming it will be good

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What is discrimination?

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The organically CS elicits CR, but similar stimuli do not

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Give an example of discrimination

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The lasagna you order at the restaurant it not good, so you do not order it again

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What is biological predisposition?

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We are programmed as humans to associate CS and UCS

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Give an example of biological predisposition

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When our stomach hurts, we assume its the food we ate

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What is biological emotional response?

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CS are effective for eliciting emotions like fear

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Give an example of biological emotional response
Children are scared of doctors office because they assume they are getting a shot every time they go
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What did Thorndike study?
Studied relationship between behavior and consequences with cats in a puzzle box
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What is the law of effect?
Repeat behaviors that lead to satisfying outcomes and do not repeat behaviors that lead to unsatisfying outcomes
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Give an example of the law of effect
You receive a bad grade on a test so you study differently for the next test
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What is positive reinforcement?
Adding/bringing good things to an organism
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Give an example of positive reinforcement
Money, praise
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What is negative reinforcement?
Taking away bad things from an organism
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Give an example of negative reinforcement
Removing pain by taking Tylenol
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What is positive punishment?
Adding/bringing bad things to an organism
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Give an example of positive punishment
Poor grades, spanking, criticism
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What is negative punishment
Taking away good things from an organism
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Give an examples of negative punishment
Loss of TV privileges, grounding
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What are common issues with punishment?
Learned helpfulness, has to be specific and immediate to work, effective for teaching people not effective for teaching people to perform certain behavior
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What is learned helpfulness?
Organism learns that their actions have no effect on the environment so they continue to do that certain behavior
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What is gradient in operant conditioning?
Longer delay between behavior and consequence, the weaker the operant conditioning is
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What are primary reinforcers?
Biologically necessary (food and water)
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What are secondary reinforcers?
Stimuli require reinforcing properties through learning (money, praise)
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What is token economy?
Reward system, stars are given when chores are done
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What is shaping?
Rewarding successively closer approximations of desired behavior
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Give example of shaping
Learning to play basketball: you learn to pick up the ball, dribble, and shoot separately
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What is a reinforcement schedule?
It states what organism must do to be reinforced
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What is a continuous reinforcement schedule?
Organism is reinforced every time the desired behavior is performed
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What is a partial reinforcement schedule?
Desired behavior is only reinforced sometimes
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Which schedule is better for humans?
Partial because there is a higher rate of responding and it is resistant to extinction
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What is a fixed ratio schedule?
Reward after set number of responses, leads to a steady response rate
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What is a variable ratio schedule?
Reward after varying number of responses, rapid response rate
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What is a fixed timing schedule?
Reward after specific time interval
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Give an example of a fixed ratio schedule
Reward after packing 20 pairs of socks
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Give an example of a fixed timing schedule
Paycheck: getting paid biweekly
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What is a variable timing schedule?
Reward at varying intervals, stable response rate
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What did B.F. Skinner believe?
All learning is rooted in operant conditioning
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What do new psychologists believe?
Learning stems from operant conditioning and mental processes
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What is latent learning?
Organisms learning with no reinforcement
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What did EC Tolman do with rats?
He placed rats in a maze without rewarding them, they eventually learned the path and exited
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What is observational learning?
Learning by observing actions of others
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What did Albert Bandura do?
Filmed children playing with bobo dolls to observe their aggression towards the dolls
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List 4 conditions of observational studies/ learning
1. Pay attention to the model 2. Retain in memory what you saw 3. Have motivation to imitate observed model 4. Potential reproduction: reproducing the behavior
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What is reciprocal determinism?
All human functioning is an interaction among a person's values, environmental factors, and behavior
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Give an example of reciprocal determinism
Child acting out in school

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