The simple form of learning in which one stimulus calls forth the response that is usually called forth by another stimulus.
What is Classical Conditioning?
100
Biological make-up of a human or animal.
What is a Primary Reinforcer?
100
A personal or animal learns due to the consequences of their actions.
What is Operant Conditioning?
100
Psychologist who conducted experiment to help undertand operant conditioning better with Pigeons.
Who was B.F. Skinner?
100
A previously desirable or neutral food comes to be percieved as repugnant because it is associated with negative stimulation; a learned avoidance of a particular food.
What is Taste Aversion?
200
In Pavlov's dog experiment the salvation in response to a bell is this.
What is a Conditioned Response?
200
This type of reinforcer must be learned. Rewards such as certificates are examples of these.
What is a Secondary Reinforcer?
200
A partial reinforcement schedule where one is rewarded after an unpredictable number of responses; while people play the slot machines, they never know what pull will be the big winner.
What is Variable Ratio?
200
Psycologist who is known for teaching Baby Albert to fear his pet rat.
Who was John watson?
200
The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is spontanteous recovery?
300
A natural response to a natural event. In Pavlov's dog experiment the salvation in response to food is this.
What is an Unconditioned Response?
300
Strentghens a response by removing something undersirable or unpleasant.
What is a negative reinforcer?
300
This occurs to a behavior after repeated lack of reinforcement. For example, if a child is no longer given a grade for completing homework, they may stop completing homework.
What is extinction?
300
Psychologist who conducted experiment with Dogs to study Clasisical Conditioning.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
300
The tendency to respond in the same way to stimluli that have similar characteristics.
What is generalization?
400
A learned event that causes a learned response. In Pavlov's dog experiment the bell is this.
What is a Conditioned Stimulus?
400
This increases the frequency of the behavior they follow when they are applied.
What is a Positive reniforcer?
400
Rewards a response after some defined period of time; weekly paycheck.
What is Interval reinforcement?
400
Psychologist who said we need Self-Actualization, Esteem, Love/belonging, Safety, and Physiological to live up to our fullest and unique potential.
Who was Abraham Maslow?
400
The ability to distinguish the conditioned stimulus from other stimuli that are similar.
What is discrimination?
500
Causes a Natural (NOT LEARNED) response. In Pavlov's dog experiment the food is this.
What is an Unconditioned Stimulus?
500
Behavior not reinforced after it occurs.
What is Partial Reinforcement?
500
The project B.F. Skinner producted training pigeons to guide missiles to targets.
What was Project Pigeon?
500
Psychologist who worked with Rosalie Rayner and conducted an experiment to further study classical conditining.
Who was John Watson?
500
A way to get over fears where a pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting the fear.