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What are Aristotle’s four laws of association?

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  1. Law of Similarity
  2. Law of Contrast
  3. Law of Contiguity
  4. Law of Frequency
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Define Law of Similarity

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Events that are similar to each other are readily associated with each other.

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Define Law of Contrast

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Events that are opposite of each other are readily associated

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Define Law of Contiguity

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Events that occur in close proximity to each other in time or space are readily associated

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Define Law of Frequency

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The more frequently two items occur together, the more strongly they’re associated

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T/F: Is Aristotle an Empiricist?

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True

He also believes in Nurture

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Describe Descartes Mind-Body Dualism:

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  • The mind is a free will, and produces voluntary behaviors

- The body produces involuntary, reflexive behaviors; like a machine, in response to external stimulation.

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What group of philosophers believed that all knowledge is the result of experiential learning?

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The British Empiricist

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What group believes that all knowledge is function of experience

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The British Empiricist

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Who primarily employed the method of introspection to the study of mind and behavior?

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Edward Kitchener (Structuralist)

William James (Functionalist)

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What are the beliefs of a Structuralist?

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The subject in an experiment attempts to accurately describe his or her conscious thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences.

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What are the beliefs of a Functionalist?

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Assumes the mind evolved to help us adapt to the world around us.

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What was Watson’s natural approach known as?

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Behaviorism

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What does Behaviorism focus on?

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Study of the environmental influences on observable behavior

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Who believed introspection and inferences shouldn’t be relied upon because they aren’t directly observable?

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Watson

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Who believed in Radical Behaviorism?

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Skinner

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What are the four reasons why Skinner believed that explaining behavior by appealing to internal events was problematic?

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  1. We don’t have direct access to the internal events of others
  2. Difficult to determine the relationship between thoughts and feelings to behavior
  3. Can’t directly change internal events
  4. Pseudo-explanations (“I feel like going to the movies”)
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What are Skinner’s position on internal events such as thoughts and emotions?

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He was more about environmental consequences

Observable behavior

Against thoughts and emotions in regards to Behaviorism

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What is the IV?

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What’s manipulated in an experiment

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What is the DV?

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What’s measured in an experiment

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T/F: Changes in the DV are dependent upon changes in the IV?

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True

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What is appetitive stimulus?

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An event an organism will seek out

Food when you’re hungry

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What is aversive stimulus?

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An event an organism will avoid.

Shock

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What is Deprivation?

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Prolonged absence of an event, which often increases the appetitiveness of that event

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What is Satiation?
Refers to prolonged exposure to an event, which decreases appetitiveness of that event.
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What is contiguity?
Closeness or nearness.
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What is contingency?
Predictive or functional relationship between two events, such that the occurrence of one even predicts the probably occurrence of another
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What are some features of behavior that can be observed and recorded?
1. Rate of Response 2. Intensity 3. Duration 4. Speed 5. Latency
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Define Rate of Response
Frequency with which a response occurs in a certain behavior
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Define Intensity
Force or magnitude of the behavior
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Define Duration
Length of time that an individual repeatedly or continuously performs a certain behavior.
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Define Speed
Measures how quickly or slowly a behavior occurs, or the rapidity with which one progresses through some type of distance.
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Define Latency
Length of time required for the behavior to BEGIN
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Which single-subject design is typically used when the return to baseline condition would be unethical?
Reversal (ABA) design: can be unethical when returning to baseline.
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Which single-subject design doesn't control for the possibility of a time coincidence?
Single-Subject (AB) design: Doesn't control the possibility of a time coincidence i.e. Something else that occurred simultaneously with the condition change that affect behavior.
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Why do we experience pain only after we engage in a protective reflex?
- ANATOMY! | - Our nerves transmits sensory information to our brain and in turn our brain triggers motor response (flexion response)
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What kind of stimulus elicits a fixed-action pattern?
Sign stimulus or releaser.
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What is habituation?
Decrease in strength of an elicited behavior following repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus.
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What is sensitization?
increase in strength of an elicited behavior following repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus.
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What is dishabituation?
Reappearance of a habituated response due to the presentation of a novel stimulus.
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Review Opponent-Process Theory
...... Know a- process & b-process
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What is the Neutral Stimulus definition?
Stimulus not associated with the UR
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What is the Unconditioned Stimulus definition?
Stimulus that naturally elicits a response without any prior learning
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What is the Unconditioned Response definition?
Response that's naturally elicited by the US without any prior learning
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What is the Condition Stimulus definition?
Any stimulus that, although initially neutral, comes to elicit a response because it's been associated with unconditioned stimulus
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What is the Conditioned Response definition?
Response, often similar to the US, that's elicited by the CS
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Out of all the Temporal Stimulus Arrangements which is the most effective?
Delayed Conditioning: Onset of the NS precedes the onset of the US, & the two stimuli overlap.
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What is Simultaneous conditioning?
The NS & US occurs simultaneously
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Out of all the Temporal Stimulus Arrangements which is the least effective?
Backward conditioning
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What is backward conditioning?
Onset of the NS follows the onset of the US.
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What is extinction?
- The process where a CR can be weakened/eliminated when the CS is repeatedly presented in the absence of the US - The repeated presentation of the CS in the absence of the US
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What is Spontaneous Recovery?
The reappearance of a conditioned response to a CS following a rest period after extinction
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What is stimulus generalization?
Tendency for a CR to occur in the presence of a stimulus that's similar to the CS
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What is discrimination?
Tendency for the response to be elicited more by one stimulus than another.
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What is higher-order conditioning?
A stimulus that is associated with a CS can also become a CS Step 1: WASP : STING ------> FEAR NS1 US UR WASP -----> FEAR CS1 CR Step 2: TRASH BIN : WASP -----> FEAR NS2 US UR TRASH BIN ------> FEAR CS2 CR
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What is sensory preconditioning?
When one stimulus is conditioned as a CS, another stimulus with which it was previously associated with can also become a CS. Step 1: TOOL SHED : WASP NS2 NS1 Step 2: WASP : STING ------> FEAR NS1 US UR WASP -----> FEAR CS1 CR Step 3: TOOL SHED -----> FEAR CS2 CR
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What is the difference between higher-order and sensory preconditioning?
There is no previous association in higher-order
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What is overshadowing?
- Compound stimulus is conditioned to a US, which elicits a UR - Not all stimuli are equally salient - More salient stimulus becomes the stronger CS & interferes conditioning
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What is blocking?
The presence of an established CS interferes with conditioning of a new CS - There's a history with CS First: NS becomes CS Second: [CS + NS} = compound stimulus Third: Each member of compound stimulus displayed separately .... CS --> CR NS --> Nothing
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What is latent inhibition?
Unfamiliar stimulus is more readily conditioned as a CS than a familiar stimulus.
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What is the S-S Model?
Stimulus Stimulus NS is directly associated with US
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What is the S-R Model?
Stimulus Response NS directly relates to the UR
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What is the compensatory-response model?
A CS that have been repeatedly associated with a primary response (a-process) to a US will eventually come to elicit a compensatory response (b-process)
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The compensatory-response model is most similar to what theory?
Opponent-Process Theory
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Phobias are an example of which conditioning process gone too far?
Overgeneralization. Fear response to one event has become overgeneralized to other harmless events
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What individual differences and evolutionary predispositions can affect the development of phobias?
Observational learning Temperament: Emotionality & Reactivity Preparedness: Genetically based predisposition to learn certain kinds of associations more easily than others History of control: history of being able to control important events in one's environment.
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What 3 systematic desensitization procedures did Wolpe develop?
1. Training in relaxation 2. Creation of a hierarchy of imaginary scenes that elicit progressively intense levels of fear 3. Pairing of each item in the hierarchy with relaxation
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What is systematic desensitization?
Behavioral treatment for phobias Pairing relaxation with a succession of stimuli that elicit increase levels of fear
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What is counter conditioning?
A CS elicits one type of response that's associated with an event that elicits an incompatible response
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What is reciprocal inhibition?
Certain responses are incompatible with each other, and the occurrence of one response necessarily inhibits the other.
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What is flooding?
prolonged exposure to fears stimulus
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What are the two types of flooding?
Imaginal: visualize fear In Vivo: Literally and physical exposed to fear
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Regarding systematic desensitization, what is counterconditioning?
CS elicits one type of response and is associated with an event that elicits an incompatible response.

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