Learning
The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors is called
What is Learning?
Learning that occurs due to reward and punishment
What is operant conditioning?
In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed
What is Fixed-Interval Schedule?
This behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats
Who is B.F. Skinner?
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
What is Insight?
What are the two types of associative learning
What are classical conditioning and operant conditioning?
When a person or organism links two or more stimuli and anticipates and event
What is classical conditioning?
Marie works in a dress factory where she earns $10 for each three dresses she hems. Marie is paid on a______
What is a fixed-ratio schedule?
This Psychologist discovered classical conditioning and trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
A tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
What is Instinctive Drift?
Small successive step taken in which to get an organism to learn a behavior.
What is shaping?
In Pavlov's experiment, the salivating to the sound of a bell is a(n)
What is a Conditioned Response?
Slot machines work on a _____ reinforcement schedule
What is variable-ratio?
This psychologist was a pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning), stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; His studies include: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls, children mimicked play.
Who is Albert Bandura?
Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
What is Law of effect?
This type of learning occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
What is Latent Learning?
Parents say, “I’m taking away your phone because you failed the AP Chemistry test.” Parents are using what aspect of operant conditioning
What is negative reinforcement?
You could receive a text message at any random time. You are reinforced on a ______schedule
What is variable interval?
This psychologist is widely known for the law of effect- the principle that rewarded behavior is likely to recur and punished behavior is unlikely to recur.
Who is Edward L. Thorndike?
Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation, language learning, and empathy.
What is Mirror Neurons?
This type of learning describes the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.
What is cognitive learning?
When shaping a behavior, you would couple a treat with, "good dog" to get your pet to sit. The "good dog" is considered
What is a secondary reinforcer?
Reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement
What is partial/intermittent reinforcement schedule?
This psychologist researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation, they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
Who is John Garcia?
The use of an external monitoring device to obtain information about a bodily function and possibly gain control over that function
What is Biofeedback?