Strengthening a response by following it with the taking away or avoiding of something unpleasant.
What is NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT?
What is CHAINING?
The process of weakening a response by following it with unpleasant consequences.
What is PUNISHMENT?
Each time a behavior occurs, reinforcement is given.
What is CONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT?
A behavior that spreads from one situation to a similar one.
What is GENERALIZATION?
Different methods of reinforcing.
What is SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT?
Learning to tell the difference between one event or object and another; the reverse of generalization.
What is DISCRIMINATION LEARNING?
Reinforcement is not given each time an act is performed.
What is PARTIAL REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE?
The process of gradually refining a response by successively reinforcing closer approximations of it.
What is SHAPING?
Reinforcement occurs after a desired behavior occurs, but a different number of the desired acts is required each time.
What is VARIABLE RATIO SCHEDULE?
Reinforcement occurs after the desired act is performed a specific number of times.
What is FIXED RATIO SCHEDULE?
All learning that occurs in a social situation.
What is SOCIAL LEARNING?
What is VARIABLE INTERVAL SCHEDULE?
A form of social learning in which the organism observes and imitates the behavior of others.
What is OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING?
A reinforcement is received after a fixed amount of time has passed if the desired act occurs.
What is FIXED INTERVAL SCHEDULE?
A way of learning based on abstract mental processes and previous knowledge.
What is COGNITIVE APPROACH (TO LEARNING)?
In the 1930's, this person thought that stimulus-response was too shallow of an explanation for all learning and developed the idea of a cognitive map.
Who is E.C.TOLMAN?
A mental image of where one is located in space.
What is COGNITIVE MAP?
This person claimed the most important aspect of learning was missed by Pavlov, Watson and Skinner.
Who was ALBERT BANDURA?
Methods for solving problems.
What are STRATEGIES?