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The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, study, or by being taught?
What is definition of learning?
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Who "invented" Classical Conditioning?
Who is Ivan Pavlov
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.
What is Fixed Ratio
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An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
What is Punishment
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the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
What is Behaviorism
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Classical conditioning. Does not cause a response.
What is Neutral Stimulus
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Russian physiologist. He is best known for his studies on the conditioned reflex. He showed by experimenting with dogs how the secretion of saliva can be stimulated not only by food but also by the sound of a bell associated with food
Who is Ivan Pavlov
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses.
What is Variable Ratio
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In Classical Conditioning the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
What is Discrimination
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This can occur when eating a substance that is followed by an illness. For example: If you get sick by eating tacos, you may avoid eating tacos for a while.
What is Taste aversion
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In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response.
What is conditioned stimulus
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Who ran the "Bobo doll" experiments
What is Albert Bandura
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
What is Fixed Interval
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Initial stage in classical conditioning; the phase associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that neutral stimulus comes to elicit conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.
What is Acquisition
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An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.
What is Shaping
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The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
What is generalization
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Who did the experiment with dogs in a cage with no top on a grid floor?
What is Martin Seligman
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals.
What is Variable Interval
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Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
What is Latent Learning
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What are two types of Negative Positive Conditioning?
What is Escape and Avoidance
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Thorndike’s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.
What is Law of Effect
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What does BF stand for in BF Skinner?
Who is Burrhus Frederic (B. F.) Skinner
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Who invented the Schedules of Reinforcement?
Who is BF Skinner
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The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.
What is Extinction
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The reappearance, after a pause, of extinguished conditioned response.
What is Spontaneaus Recovery
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