Vocab I
Vocab II
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Schedules of Reinforcement
100

Something happens to you and it causes a natural response.

What is Classical Conditioning?


100

The type of learning that happens by watching someone. 

What is observational learning?

100

Give an example of Classical Conditioning.

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100

Give an example of Operant Conditioning.

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100

Deals with time

What is Interval?

200

What is a Conditioned Response?

After conditioning, the response produced when a conditioned stimulus is present. 

200

Who came up with the law of effect?

Edward Thorndike

200

Explain what happened in Pavlov's experiment.

Used a neutral stimulus to classically condition a dog - every time the dog heard the bell, they would salivate as they associated the sound with food. 
200

What three labels can be given to reinforcement?

_________ and ________

_________ and ________

_________ and _________

Primary, Secondary

Immediate, Delayed

Positive, Negative

200

Deals with the quantity of a behavior.

What is ratio?

300

You do something to get a reward or avoid a punishment.

What is Operant Conditioning?

300

The procedure that involves small steps to work towards a desired behavior.

What is shaping?

300
What is extinction?

A decrease/elimination in the frequency of a learned response due to the Unconditioned and conditioned stimulus not being present. 

300

Give an example of an immediate, positive, and secondary reinforcer.

Answers will vary

300

Getting a pellet of food every five minutes is what schedule of reinforcement?

Fixed-Interval

400

Explain what the Bobo Doll experiment discovered.

Children will imitate what adults or other models do - showed how observational learning can take place.

400

What Psychologist founded the field of Behaviorism?

John Watson

400

What is stimulus discrimination?

Learning to respond to only one stimulus and not other stimuli. 

400

Making negative associations with a food is called what?

What is taste aversion?

400

After 5-7 jumping jacks, I will take a break.

Variable Ratio

500

A stimulus or event that follows a behavior and makes that behavior less likely to occur again.

What is a punisher?

500

The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of time passes. 

What is spontaneous recovery?

500

Explain what the Contingency Theory stated.

As the number of parings between CS and US increases, the association increases - this was originally stated by Pavlov. Rescorla will argued that it was the cause and effect of the CS and US that caused the learning to take place. 

500

Give an example of a Primary, Immediate, and Negative Reinforcer.

Answers will vary.

500

After I failed the test, I studied for a period of time every night for the rest of the year. 

Variable Interval

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