Learning
The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.
What is classical conditioning?
A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.
What is operant conditioning?
A sudden realization of a problem's solution.
What is insight?
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
What is coping?
Any event or situation that evokes a response.
What is a stimulus?
A systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.
What is behaviorism?
Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.
What is reinforcement?
Learning that occurs but isn't apparent until there's an incentive to demonstrate it.
What is latent learning?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
What is learned helplessness?
An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.
What is habituation?
A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
What is a neutral stimulus?
Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.
What is the law of effect?
A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
What is a cognitive map?
The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards.
What is self-control?
Learning that certain events occur together.
What is associative learning?
An unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus.
What is an unconditioned response?
An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer approximations of the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake.
What is intrinsic motivation?
The perception that you control your own fate.
What is internal locus of control?
The acquisition of mental information.
What is cognitive learning?
A stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement.
What is a discriminative stimulus?
A desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment.
What is extrinsic motivation?
The perception that chance or outside sources beyond our personal control determine our fate.
What is external locus of control?