A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
What is learning
100
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
What is insight
100
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery
100
A procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
What is shaping
100
Another term for observational learning
What is social learning
200
When you reward responses that are ever-closer to the final desired behavior, and you ignore all other responses
What is successive approximations
200
Passive resignation after faced with traumatic events that one has no control over
What is learned helplessness
200
A stimulus that is natural and automatic, and triggers a response
What is unconditioned stimulus
200
An innately re-in forcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need
What is primary reinforcer
200
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
What is modeling
300
An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
What is habituation
300
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
What is latent learning
300
Once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
What is generalization
300
Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus
What is respondent behavior
300
Researcher who used Bobo doll
What is Bandura
400
Who was the scientist who experimented with Little Albert?
What is Watson
400
A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and giving back information regarding a subtle physiological state
What is biofeedback
400
The initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neural stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response
What is acquisition
400
A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement
What is discriminative stimulus
400
Positive, constructive, helpful behavior
What is prosocial behavior
500
Another word for Skinner box
What is operant chamber
500
An awareness of how likely it is that a US will occur
What is expectancy
500
A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.
What is higher-order conditioning
500
Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences became more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences became less likely
What is law of effect
500
Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so