Key Terms
A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from some type of experience.
What is Learning?
Believing that knowledge is innate.
What is Nativism?
The relationship that occurs in classical conditioning.
What is stimulus -> response relationship?
The man most known for studying operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured.
What is behavior?
Believing knowledge comes from experiences.
What is Empiricism?
The behavior used in classical conditioning.
What is respondant behavior?
Giving something desired to increase future behaviors.
What is positive reinforcement?
Voluntary behaviors that are emitted by the organism.
What is operant behavior?
The adaptiveness of behavior.
What is evolution?
A word for the unconditioned response in classical conditioning.
What is a reflex?
Something that results in the decrease of behavior.
What is a punisher/punishment?
Unconscious learning; such as conditional, operant, and observational learning.
What is implicit learning?
Learning as an adaptive process.
What is Functionalism?
The first man that thoroughly studied Classical Conditioning.
Who is Watson?
The relationship followed in operant conditioning.
What is a Response -> Stimulus relationship?
Involuntary and reflexive behavior elicited by preceding stimuli.
What is respondant behavior?
The theory that environmental stimuli influences observable behavior.
What is Behaviorism?
Anyone can learn anything if they have the right combination of stimulus responses.
What is equipotentiality?
Taking away something undesired to increase future behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?