Exam 2 Flashcards
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Learning
A process that changes your behavior or knowledge from experience.
Conditioning
A process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses.
3 basic types of learning
Classical,operant, and observational conditioning
Observational learning
Learning through others behaviors
Classical conditioning
How certain stimuli can trigger an automatic response.
(e.g) A bully triggers anxiety in the inferior.
Operant learning
How we acquire new, voluntary actions after learning.
The natural stimulus produces a reflexive response without prior learning.
Unconditioned stimulus
an unlearned reflexive response
Unconditioned response
Stimulus Generalization
The occurrence of a learned response not only to the original stimulus but the other, similar stimulus as well.
Stimulus Discrimination
The occurrence of a learned response to a specific stimulus but not to the similar stimuli.
Phenotype
- The chrecteristics that are observed in an organism, these can be influenced by enviornmental factors
Zygote
one single and very small cell during conception before you are born.
genotype
The genetic makeup of an individual organism