Operant Conditioning
A response or behavior that is increased by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome or aversive stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?
In Pavlov's classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with this word.
What is learned?
The set of skills used to invent, discover, explore, imagine, and suppose.
What is creativity (creative intelligence)?
The set of processes that are used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.
What is memory?
A subjective, affective state of being that we often describe as our feelings.
What are emotions?
The response is reinforced only part of the time.
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response resulting in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.
What is extinction?
A mental representation of events or objects drawn from personal experience.
What is a natural concept?
The type of memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What is explicit memory?
The wants or needs that direct behavior toward a goal.
What is motivation?
The repeated reinforcement of a behavior every time it happens.
What is continuous reinforcement?
In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between these two types of stimuli.
What are the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus?
This type of intelligence involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems.
What is fluid intelligence?
You repeat it to yourself over and over again until you feel like you won’t forget it.
What is rehearsal?
A pattern of behavior in which we regularly engage.
What is a habit?
These types of reinforcers have innate reinforcing qualities.
What are primary reinforcers?
This theory explains that the immediate associations involved in conditioned taste aversion are a result of adaptation that helps us learn to avoid foods that are potentially harmful.
What is the evolutionary theory?
Norms and expected behavior from people with a specific set of functions in society.
What is role schema?
Information about events we have personally experienced.
What is episodic memory?
Deviations from homeostasis create physiological needs that then push us to behave.
What is drive theory?
Behavior charts are an example of this type of partial reinforcement.
What is a fixed ratio reinforcement schedule?
The re-emergence of conditioned responding to an extinguished conditioned stimulus (CS) with the passage of time since extinction.
What is spontaneous recovery?
Our tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future.
What is the availability heuristic?
Remembering the state capitols.
What is semantic memory?
Smiling can make someone feel happier.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?