Unlearned Behaviors
Helps organisms adapt to their environment.
Learning
Stimulus that elicits a reflexive response.
Unconditioned Stimulus
Exact amount of time passes between each reinforcement.
Fixed-interval schedule
Administer an aversive stimulus (spanking or parking ticket)
Positive punishment
Learning in which the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired or associated with the behavior.
Classical Conditioning
Motor neural reactions to a specific stimulus.
Reflexes
A natural unlearned reaction to a stimulus.
Unconditioned Response
Varying amount of time passes between reinforcement.
Variable-interval schedule
Withdrawn a desirable stimulus (time-out or revoked driver's license)
Negative punishment
Form of learning on which the stimulus/experience happens after the behavior is demonstrated.
Operant Conditioning
Behaviors triggered by a broad range of events (aging, change of season)
Instincts
Stimulus that does not naturally elicit a response.
Neutral Stimulus
Reinforcement occurs after a fixed number of responses.
Fixed-ratio schedule
The initial period of learning is when an organism learns to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.
Acquisition
Implementation of a consequence in order to decrease a behavior.
Punishment
What specific centers of the body are involved in reflexes.
Primitive center (spinal cord and medulla)
Stimulus that elicits a response after repeatedly being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus
Reinforcment occurs after a varying number of responses.
Variable-ratio schedule
Decrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus
Extinction
Impelmententation of a consequence in order to increase a behavior.
Reinforcement
When an organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together.
Associative Learning
The behavior caused by the conditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Response
Operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior closer to a desired goal
Shaping
Learning not to respond to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly without change, as a stimulus is repeated we learn to ignore it.
Habituation
Behavior that is followed by consequences satisfying to the organism will be repeated and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences will be discouraged
Law Of Effect