Teach me Something
True or False: Learning is unique to only humans
False
Basic learning processes similar across many species
A natural response
Unconditioned Response
This is what we should do when we want to behavior to increase
Reinforcement
This scientist taught an animal to drool on command
Ivan Pavlov
A form of learning where a connection is made between two stimuli that have occurred together, such that one stimulus now predicts the other
Stimulus-Stimulus Association (S-S)
Classical Conditioning
What process by which life experiences causes changes in the behavior or thinking of an organism
Learning
This stimuli does nothing until paired with another.
Neutral Stimulus
When we wish for behavior to decrease or cease
Punishment
This Psychological field specializes only in observable reactions, like conditioning.
Behaviorism
Associations involving MORE than two stimuli
Higher-Order Conditioning
The two forms of conditioning
Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
Sensing food makes you hungry, what is the food
Unconditioned Stimulus
True or False, Negative always means BAD
False
Negative Reinforcement - The removal of something undesired (example: the removal of chores for a teen because an A on the test)
the point at which the conditioned stimulus NO LONGER predicts the conditioned response
Extinction
My German Shepherd got excited because she heard my car pull into the drive way. So of course, the puppy got excited too.
Learning the connection between two things
Associative Learning
What a Neutral Stimulus becomes after it has been successfully paired with an Unconditioned Stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus
To add something undesired for a punishment, or to add something desired for a reinforcement
Positive
“All behavior is determined by its consequences, so we have no free will to act as we want.”
Famous quote of a man who taught a rat to flip a switch
B.F. Skinner
Princess, the Chihuahua had a bad owner who always wore a ball cap. She now growls, or snaps at anyone wearing a hat. What is this an example of?
Generalization
In Dr. Doe's newest project; the scientist is going to pair thunder with visual of teddy bears for a small child to see if the child eventually grows afraid of the teddy bear.
Classical Conditioning
Pavlov's dogs drooling when they heard the bell is an example of this.
Conditioned Response
Billy has been caught staying up late on his phone, long after he should be asleep multiple times. He is now only allowed on his computer for schoolwork, and can not use any electronics for a month.
Negative Punishment
Dr. Claflin had a bad phone call once in the middle of the night. She's had many calls at night that were positive since then. However, when the phone woke her up last night, she was instantly full of worry.
Spontaneous Recovery
We gave the dogs food whenever we showed them a blue circle until they salivated whenever they saw a blue circle. We noticed that the dogs will not salivate for any other blue shape, nor any other color circle.
Descrimination