Important People
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Learning
Other
100
Russian Physiologist who discovered classical conditioning while studying dog digestion.
What is Ivan Pavlov?
100
A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
What is classical conditioning?
100
Sometimes referred to as instrumental learning, is a method of learning that occurs through reinforcements and punishments for behavior. It encourages the subject to associate desirable or undesirable outcomes with certain behaviors.
What is operant conditioning?
100
Long-lasting change in behavior resulting from experience.
What is learning?
100
Desire to perform a behavior to receive rewards or avoid punishment.
What is extrinsic motivation?
200
Discovered the law of effect.
What is Edward Thorndike?
200
The process of unlearning a behavior.
What is extinction?
200
Consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior.
What is punishment?
200
Learning that certain events occur together.
What is associative learning?
200
Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing others do so.
What is mirror neurons?
300
English writer who invented the operant chamber.
What is B.F Skinner?
300
Learning to respond to the CS without presentation of the US.
What is acquisition?
300
Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.
What is operant behavior?
300
Learning by observing others.
What is observational learning?
300
Came up with social-learing theory
What is Albert Bandura?
400
Came up with latent learning.
What is Edward Tolman?
400
If you ingest unusual food and become naseous you will probably develop an aversion to the food.
What is learned taste aversions?
400
Ex:no fees, no homework, no calling on in class, snooze, aspirin.
What is negative reinforcement?
400
Learning that becomes obvious only once a reinforcement is given for demonstrating it, learning that occurs but is not immediately evidenced
What is latent learning?
400
Mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
What is cognitive map?
500
Classically conditioned a little boy named Albert to fear a white rat. (There are 2 people.)
What is John Watson & Rosalie Rayner?
500
Once a conditioned stimulus elicits a conditioned response one can briefly use that conditioned stimulus as an unconditioned stimulus in order to condition a response to a new stimulus.
What is second-order/high-order conditioning?
500
Using reinforcers to guide action toward the desired behavior. Teach to perform a number of responses successively.
What is shaping & chaining?
500
Radical behaviorists assert that learning occurs without thought.
What is cognitive learning?
500
Postulates that the more two things are paired the greater the learning will take place.
What is contiguity model?
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