Behavioral Genesis
Known as a famous empiricist, this philosopher assumed that a person's abilities and tendencies are learned
Who is... Aristotle
This term is given to a person, place, or thing that can change over time or from one situation to another
The physical form of a targeted behavior is referred to as...
Process by which Pavlov's beard was so, so soft...
What is Classical Conditioning
Shenger- Krestovnika designed this procedure using dogs as subjects and came across a condition that Pavlov called experimental neurosis
What is stimulus discrimination
Research method coined by Edward B. Titchener where participants subjectively described thoughts, emotions, and sensations
What is INTROSPECTION
Procedure whereby the change in the effectiveness of a stimulus or event as a reinforcer or punisher is altered by decreasing how effective an event is
What is abolishing operation
Aims to identify functional relationships through manipulating the IV and assessing the resulting effect on the DV
What is Experimental Research
Consisting of a sensory neuron, an interneuron, and a motor neuron, this responds to pain messages sent through spinal cord and is faster than waiting for the message to reach and be decoded by the brain
What is a Reflex Arc?
When pairing a light and a metronome, the dog learned to salivate only to the light. It is said that the light was more salient of a stimulus than the metronome. What is this known as?
Who is Edward C. Tolman
Instrument used to measure behavior in which the number and speed of responding can be observed
What is a cumulative recorder
What is rate
These type of adaptive responses have evolved to cope with consistent aspects of the environment but are NOT adaptive to sudden, large-scale environmental changes. They represent a sequence of responses elicited by a specific stimulus also known as a sign stimulus or a releaser
What is fixed action pattern
This theory of learning states that the amount of conditioning must be distributed among the various CSs
What is Rescorla-Wagner theory
When we understand how the environment affects us, we can change the environment to our benefit. These are famous words from which behavioral philosopher?
Who is B. F. Skinner
This term is used to describe the predictive/functional relationship between two events
What is contingency
This type of design requires more than one person, setting, or behavior, to which tx can be applied. However, it is best used when tx is likely to produce permanent change in behavior.
What is Multiple Baseline Design
Type of temporal factor in conditioning in which a US is presented before the NS with only slight overlap between them
What is Backward conditioning
What is Imaginal Flooding
Who is John B Watson
Experimental unit of measurement that is made to systematically vary across the different conditions via manipulation
What is Independent Variable
This type of design might not require statistical tests to determine if treatment is successful however, it is not recommended to be used when it is ethically inappropriate to remove treatment once some improvement has been noted.
What is Single-subject Designs
These type of conditioning can account for many of our fears and anxieties
This model is said to have the conditioned response prepare the organism for the presentation of the Unconditioned stimulus. What is it called?
What is Preparatory Response model