Parts of
Learning
Learning 2
Conditioning
Vocab
100
The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency

Extinction

100

Occurs when an organism’s responding is influenced by watching others

Observational Learning

100

Form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences

Operant Conditioning

100

Any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience

Learning

200

The initial stage of learning a new response tendency

Acquisition

200

Learning that is not apparent from behavior when it first occurs; usually becomes clear once an incentive is introduced

Latent learning

200

Type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus

Classical Conditioning
200

Strengthening of a response tendency

Reinforcement

300

The reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of a desired response

Shaping

300

When an organism acquires a response that prevents some aversive stimulus from occurring

Avoidance Learning

300
Russian physiologist who is credited for the discovery of classical conditioning.

Ivan Pavlov

300

When an event following a response weakens the tendency to make that response

Punishment

400

Reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus

Spontaneous Recovery

400

When an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulus

Escape Learning
400

Changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli

Evaluative Conditioning

400

When an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus responds in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus

Stimulus generalization

500

If a response is extinguished in a different environment than it was acquired, the extinguished response will reappear upon return to the original environment in which acquisition occurred

Renewal Effect
500

Notable psychologist who is well known for his Bobo Doll experiments

Albert Bandura
500

Type of conditioning in which the conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus

Higher Order Conditioning

500

When an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus does not respond in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to original stimulus

Stimulus Discrimination

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