A relatively permanent behavior change due to experience.
What is learning?
100
Who was the founder of classical conditioning?
Who is Pavlov?
100
B.F. Skinner used this technology to test his theory of the Law of Effect.
What is the Skinner Box?
100
The example of buying a child a video game after she throws a tantrum is an example of ________ reinforcement?
What is positive reinforcement?
200
The process of learning associations.
What is conditioning?
200
When Joe was young, his parents decided to give him a quarter every day he made his bed. Joe started to make his siblings' beds also and help with other chores. Behaviorists would say that Joe was experiencing _________.
What is generalization?
200
Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.
What is a reinforcer?
200
Just before the doors of an elevator close, Lola, a coworker you despise, enters the elevator. You immediately leave, mumbling about having forgotten something. Your behavior results in _______ reinforcement?
What is negative reinforcement?
300
The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination?
300
Sometimes, after a CR has been extinguished and the animal no longer receives training, the responses can briefly reappear upon the presentation of the CS. This is known as ________.
What is spontaneous recovery?
300
In Thorndike's experiment, the hungry cat was locked in a cage next to a dish of food. The cat had to get out of the cage in order to get the food. Thorndike found that the amount of time needed for the cat to get out of the box decreased over a series of trials. What did this demonstrate?
What is the law of effect?
300
Tina likes to play with slugs, but she can find them by the shed only after it rains. What kind of reinforcement schedule is Tina's slug hunting on?
What is variable-interval?
400
Thorndike’s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.
What is the Law of Effect?
400
Just before something scary happens in a horror film, they often play scary sounding music. when i hear the music, I tense up in anticipation of the scary event. In this situation, the music serves as a _________.
What is a conditioned stimulus (CS)?
400
Skinner used this term for “training” a person or animal through reinforcements.
What is shaping?
400
The act of pushing your snooze button is an example of _______ reinforcement.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.
What is a fixed-ratio schedule?
500
In Pavlov’s experiment, once the bell elicited salivation, this became known as the _________.
What is the conditioned response (CR)?
500
Programs specifying the frequency and timing of reinforcements. It also includes the ratio schedule and interval schedule.
What are schedules of reinforcement?
500
This reinforcement schedule describes why we get addicted to slot machines.