Learning and Classical Conditioning : Definitions
This is a type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli which elicits a behavior.
What is Classical Conditioning?
This animal is what Ivan Pavlov tested when experimenting with classical conditioning.
What is Dog?
In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.
What is Reinforcer?
This psychologist used the concept of observational learning in his experiments.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This psychologist insisted that external influences and learned consequences (not internal thoughts and feelings) shape behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
What is Neutral Stimulus?
Thorndike's famous experiment that used cats was called _____.
What is "Cat in a puzzle box"?
An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.
What is Habituation?
This psychologist used the concept of classical conditioning in his experiments.
What is Ivan Pavlov?
This psychologist is the founder of observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
When a dog learns that following a command will earn them a treat.
What is Associative Learning?
Albert Bandura's famous observational experiment tested social learning in children.
What is "Bobo Doll Experiment"?
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
This person conducted an experiment with a rat in a box to show how positive reinforcement works.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This person coined the term "law of effect".
Who is Edward L. Thorndike?
This reinforcement increases behavior by stopping or reducing aversive stimuli.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Once a response has been conditioned, stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus elicit similar responses.
What is Generalization?
This psychologist is the "father of behaviorism".
Who is John B. Watson?
Pavlov’s work laid the foundation for many of _____'s ideas such as behaviorism.
Who is John B. Watson?
When a reinforcement schedule reinforces a responses a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
What is Fixed-Interval Schedule?
This experiment conducted by John B. Watson assesses whether classical conditioning can be used to condition emotional responses. This experiment has been deemed unethical and controversial.
What is "Little Albert"?
A behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.
What is Respondent Behavior?
This person believed that "a science of behavior is independent of neurology."
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This researcher spent two decades studying the dogs' digestive system.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?