Vocab- Classical Conditioning
Elicits a predictable response without training
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Adding in a desirable stimulus to increase a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
The smell of food makes you hungry. Soon every time you go into the kitchen, you feel hungry.
Name the unconditioned stimulus:
What is the smell of food?
A child is sent to his room with no supper after presenting a bad report card.
What is negative punishment.
The person who is doing the behavior that will be imitated.
What is the model?
a once neutral stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response by being paired with unconditioned stimulus
What is a conditioned stimulus?
Decreasing a behavior by removing a stimulus.
What is negative punishment?
Whenever you see a scary movie, you always eat a box of thin mints. Now you find that eating a box of thin mints makes you feel scared.
What is the conditioned stimulus?
What is the box of thin mints?
Hassan gets a bonus for working hard during the holiday season.
True or false: Observing behavior that has pleasurable consequences makes the behavior less likely to be repeated.
FALSE
the learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus
What is a conditioned response?
Responses are rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time.
What is a variable-interval?
Oftentimes physicians will give treatments that make people uncomfortable (a shot, for example). After this happens several times, people will begin feeling uncomfortable at the sight of anyone in a white lab coat.
What is the unconditioned response?
Feeling uncomfortable after a shot.
Ms. Sercel gives Juniper a treat every time she sits when given the command "sit!". Which schedule of reinforcement is this?
What is fixed-ratio?
The process of completing a behavior, someone observing that behavior, and then that person replicating that behavior.
What is modeling?
The definition of a neutral stimulus.
What is a stimulus that does not initially elicit any response?
Reinforcement that is naturally rewarding.
What is primary reinforcement?
Fred has a fluffy down pillow with some of the down sticking out of the fabric. When he first tries out the pillow, a piece of down tickles his nose and he sneezes. This happens every time he goes to bed. Soon, he sneezes every time he lays down on any kind of pillow.
What is the conditioned response?
Sneezing when laying head down on pillow.
A child is being driven by a fast food restaurant when she begins screaming that she must have french fries or she won’t survive (I relate to this). The parents surrender and drive in for a large supply of fries. (answer from the parent’s perspective)
What is negative reinforcment?
Learning from observing the consequences of others' behavior.
What is vicarious learning?
The definition of classical conditioning.
What is a type of learning in which a stimulus gains the power to cause a response?
What does the law of effect say?
Behavior followed by pleasurable rewards is likely to be repeated; behavior followed by painful consequences is likely to be reduced.
What is a conditioned stimulus and conditioned response in your life?!
Answers will vary.
I am in a public space, I hear an iPhone chime and I reach to check my cellphone.
Provide an example of positive punishment.
Answers will vary.
Ex: Ms. Sercel is angry because the Psychology class was totally disruptive and unfocused during class!! So, she gives the students 5 assignments to complete for homework.
Name the experiment that shows aggressive behavior can be learned through modeling?
The Bobo Doll experiment shows us that the emotion of aggression can be modeled.