Unit 6: Part 1

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

The process of acquiring through experiences new and relatively enduring information or behaviors

Question 2

Habituation

Answer 2

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to stimuli

Question 3

Associative learning

Answer 3

Learning that certain events occur together, the events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning)

Question 4

Stimulus

Answer 4

Any event or situation that evokes a response

Question 5

Respondent behavior

Answer 5

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

Question 6

Operant behavior

Answer 6

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences

Question 7

Classical conditioning

Answer 7

A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli; the first stimulus comes to elicit behavior in anticipation of the second stimulus

Question 8

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 8

His twentieth century experiments that are now called classical conditioning

Question 9

Behaviorism

Answer 9

The view that Psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes

Question 10

John B. Watson

Answer 10

Founding father of behaviorism/little Albert experiment

Question 11

Neutral stimulus

Answer 11

A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

Question 12

Unconditioned response

Answer 12

An unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

Question 13

Unconditioned stimulus

Answer 13

A stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers an unconditioned response

Question 14

Conditioned response

Answer 14

A learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus

Question 15

Conditioned stimulus

Answer 15

An originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US) come to trigger a CR (conditioned response)

Question 16

Acquisition

Answer 16

The initial stage of conditioning when one links a NS with an US so that NS begins triggering CR

Question 17

Extinction

Answer 17

The diminishing the CR in the absence of US

Question 18

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 18

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

Question 19

Generalization

Answer 19

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the CS to elicit similar responses

Question 20

Discrimination

Answer 20

The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and a similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus