Learning Terms
This term means that something is learned.
What is Conditioning?
A response that is unlearned (naturally occurring).
What is an unconditioned response?
This classical conditioning researcher was not a psychologist, but a physiologist known for his work on dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Food or water is an example of this type of reinforcer.
What is a primary reinforcer?
The theory that higher thinking organisms learn by watching others.
What is Social-Learning Theory?
This is the idea that organisms associated their actions with failure, leading to a sense of powerlessness.
What is learned helplessness?
This stage of Classical Conditioning involves the decrease of a conditioned response over time.
What is extinction?
This researcher is known for his work on operant conditioning, using animals in an operant chamber to reinforce their behavior.
Who is BF Skinner?
This operant conditioning method discourages behaviors.
What is punishment?
This stage in Bandura's theory is when an organism pays attention to the rewards and punishments of another's actions.
What is stage 1?
Food poisoning is an example of this learning term.
What is taste aversion?
This is the tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the CS.
What is Stimulus Generalization?
This researcher is known for his "Little Albert" experiment which also tested the stages of Classical Conditioning.
Who is John B. Watson?
This is what "positive" means in operant conditioning.
What is the adding of stimuli or consequence?
Prosocial models have this effect on others.
What is prosocial/positive effects?
Associating a random action/object with a certain outcome is known as:
What is Superstition?
This is the learned ability to distinguish the CS from similar stimuli.
What is Stimulus Discrimination?
This researcher from Stanford University, known for his "BoBo Doll" experiment, changed the way psychologists looked at Observational Learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
Taking away car keys and TV privileges is an example of this.
What is Negative Punishment?
This experiment featured children watching adults beat and scream at a toy doll.
What is the "BoBo Doll" experiment?
When a student is first learning to drive, they already know their way around the neighborhood. This is an example of ________________________.
What is a cognitive map?
This stage of Classical Conditioning is when the CR comes back after a brief rest period.
What is spontaneous recovery?
This researcher is known for the "Law of Effect", where he believed desirable results could be stamped into the organism.
Who is E.L. Thorndike?
Getting paid every 2 weeks is an example of this reinforcement schedule.
What is fixed interval?
Name one example of a factor that impacts observational learning.
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