Classical Conditioning
His dogs were very important, even if they did slobber.
Who is Ivan Pavlov.
This is the procedure where reinforcers guide the behavior closer and closer to the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
Intermittent reinforcement is different than this other kind, which occurs every time a desired response happens.
What is continuous reinforcement?
Both classical conditioning and operant conditioning are known as ________________ learning.
What is associative learning?
How did those monkey reach the bananas that were way up high in their cage?
What is "They stacked boxes on top of each other."
This is what the neutral stimulus becomes after it becomes associated with an unconditioned response.
What is a Conditioned Stimulus?
After his hungry kitties sprung themselves from prison, Thorndike coined this phrase to describe how favorable behaviors become more likely when followed by favorable consequences.
What is the law of effect?
With a fixed ratio schedule, the reinforcement is given after a fixed _________________ .
What is number of times?
This is used to decrease behavior.
What is punishment?
What do you call a mental picture of one's environment?
What is a cognitive map?
What is unconditioned response.
What is a Skinner Box?
In a fixed interval schedule, reinforcement is given after a fixed ________________ .
What is time period?
This is used to increase behavior.
What is reinforcement?
A desire to perform a behavior to recieve promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment is called __________________ motivation.
What is extrinsic motivation?
What is a conditioned response?
This is what we call a stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement (in contrast to similar stimuli that is not associated with reinforcement.)
What is discriminative stimulus?
What is variable interval reinforcement?
What is latent learning?
A desire to perform behavior for its own sake is called _______________ motivation.
That is intrinsic motivation?
This is the type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.
What is classical conditioning?
This is the type of behavior that operated on the environment, producing consequences.
What is operant behavior?
This is the kind of response one gets from variable interval reinforcement (think checking for silent texts.)
What is steady responding?
Punishment is most effective when it has these two attributes.
What are immediate (swift) and sure (reliable and intense).
This type of learning seems to occur suddenly.
What is insight learning?