Vocab
What is something that engages the senses?
Stimulus
In a group project, a student does not contribute to the assignment, but still gets a good grade. They then don't contribute to group assignments in the future because they know their group will do it for them and they will still get a good grade.
Learned Laziness
A young child wants to touch a hot stove but their parent says no. However, they are feeling risky and want the negative response so they try to touch the stove.
Operant Conditioning
What is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding?
Cognition
A person bikes to work and uses a GPS to find their way for the first month of work. One day their GPS does not work but they find they are able to get to work because they went the same route so many times.
Latent Learning
A boy receives praise for doing a certain action. He then does the action again
Operant Conditioning
What is the way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus?
A Behavior
On the radio, a person listens to a new song for the first time but their primary focus is driving yet the next time the song plays they remember the lyrics.
Latent Learning
Before every game, an athlete listens to the same song. Because they sweat when they are nervous, they sweat before every game. When they are driving some other day, the same song comes on the radio. They begin to sweat even though there is no reason for them to be nervous.
Classical Conditioning
What is the acquired response to the formerly neutral stimulus?
Conditioned Response
A person fails one math quiz and thinks they are a terrible math student forever.
Learned Helplessness
My alarm is set to the “radar sound” (neutral stimulus), and I use my alarm to wake myself up in the morning even though I dread it (neutral reaction). Now whenever I hear the “radar” ringtone, I am reminded of how I feel when I have to wake up early (conditioned response)
Classical Conditioning