People
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
General Learning Topics
Grab Bag
100
This pioneer in classical conditioning trained dogs to salivate when they heard a tone.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
In our lemonade powder experiment, salivation in response to the powder was an example of this.
What is unconditioned response?
100
You buckle your seatbelt to stop the annoying beeping noise your car makes when you drive without your seatbelt on. The beeping noise is an example of this.
What is negative reinforcement?
100
A lasting change in behavior or mental processes
What is learning?
100
In our lemonade powder experiment, salivation in response to the words "test time" is an example of this
What is a conditioned response?
200
This pioneer in the area of operant conditioning, this man trained pigeons to walk in figure eights.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
200
In our lemonade powder experiment "test time" was this type of stimulus.
What is neutral or conditioned?
200
Having your keys taken away after coming home late is an example of this kind of punishment.
What is negative punishment?
200
The process of learning that two events occur together is know as this type of learning.
What is associative ?
200
Learning that occurs without incentive, and is not apparent until there is incentive to demonstrate it.
What is latent learning?
300
Pavlov's work paved the way for this behaviorist and researcher of classical conditioning. He preformed the "Little Albert' Experiment with Rayner.
Who is John B. Watson?
300
The ability you clearly do not have when you kindly offer to pluck all the weedy dandelions from your elderly neighbor's yard, but mistaken her most prized sunflower plants as weeds too, and pluck them also.
What is the ability of stimulus discrimination?
300
Being fired for parking in front of a fire hydrant is an example of this kind of punishment.
What is positive punishment?
300
The phenomenon when response decreases after conditioning stops.
What is extinction?
300
The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
What is generalization?
400
Over 200 years ago this philosopher hypothisied that humans learned by association, foreshadowing the conclusions of researchers such as Ivan Pavlov and B. F Skinner.
Who is John Locke or Aristotle or David Hume?
400
The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination?
400
The strengthening of a reinforced response.
What is acquisition?
400
The reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is spontaneous recovery?
400
A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
What is a cognitive map?
500
This pioneer in observational learning preformed experiments with "Bobo dolls" which showed that children who had observed an adult acting violently toward one of the dolls was more likely to also act violently towards the doll.
Who is Albert Bandura?
500
The phase of associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response.
What is acquisition?
500
The theory that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated.
What is law of effect?
500
The idea that you are more able to easily learn a behavior that has helped your species survive is this type of predisposition.
What is Biological?
500
In our lemonade powder experiment the lemonade powder was an example of this.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
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