Psychologists
Ivan Pavlov discovered
What is classical conditioning?
A form of behavioral learning where a previously unconditioned response is paired with a conditioned stimulus. (Dogs drooling at the sound of a bell)
What is Classical Conditioning?
The relatively permanent change in an animals behavior due to rewards, punishments, observations and life experience.
What is learning?
A slot machine winning based on a random number of times played
Variable Ratio
B.F. Skinner invented a simple device for studying the effects of reinforcers on laboratory animals
What is Skinner Box or Operant Chamber?
Fixed-ratio, variable-interval, and fixed-ratio are examples of what?
What is Schedules of reinforcement?
Any consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior.
What is punishment?
Earning a toy every time you go to the doctor
Fixed ratio
Who is Edward Thorndike?
An operant learning technique in which a new behavior is produced by reinforcing responses that are similar to the desired response (Rewarding step by step until the final action is completed)
What is Shaping?
The term when a conditioned response stops occurring when paired with a conditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
Any event that increases the likelihood of a behavior.
What is reinforcement?
Fishing
What is VR?
They conditioned an infant named Albert to react fearfully to a white laboratory rat. They applied classical conditioning.
Who is John Watson?
A police officer giving someone a ticket is an example of what kind of punishment?
What is a positive punishment
The term for when a pleasant stimulus is presented with a fearful stimulus to try to counteract the fear?
What is counterconditioning?
To observe and imitate others.
What is observational learning?
Waiting for a train to come based on the schedule that is posted
Fixed Interval
He discovered observational learning
Who is Albert Bandura?
Taking an advil to get rid of a headache is an example of what type of reinforcement?
What is systematic desensitization?
Phobia treatment that exposes a person to their fear stimulus until they no longer feel the fear. (Afraid of the water? Let me push you in the pool!)
What is Associative Learning?
Waiting for a taxi on a busy street.
What is variable interval?