Vocab I
Something happens to you and it causes a natural response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The type of learning that happens by watching someone.
What is observational learning?
Give an example of Classical Conditioning.
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Give an example of Operant Conditioning.
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Deals with time
What is Interval?
What is a Conditioned Response?
After conditioning, the response produced when a conditioned stimulus is present.
Who came up with the law of effect?
Edward Thorndike
Explain what happened in Pavlov's experiment.
What three labels can be given to reinforcement?
_________ and ________
_________ and ________
_________ and _________
Primary, Secondary
Immediate, Delayed
Positive, Negative
Deals with the quantity of a behavior.
What is ratio?
You do something to get a reward or avoid a punishment.
What is Operant Conditioning?
The procedure that involves small steps to work towards a desired behavior.
What is shaping?
A decrease/elimination in the frequency of a learned response due to the Unconditioned and conditioned stimulus not being present.
Give an example of an immediate, positive, and secondary reinforcer.
Answers will vary
Getting a pellet of food every five minutes is what schedule of reinforcement?
Fixed-Interval
Explain what the Bobo Doll experiment discovered.
Children will imitate what adults or other models do - showed how observational learning can take place.
What Psychologist founded the field of Behaviorism?
John Watson
What is stimulus discrimination?
Learning to respond to only one stimulus and not other stimuli.
Making negative associations with a food is called what?
What is taste aversion?
After 5-7 jumping jacks, I will take a break.
Variable Ratio
A stimulus or event that follows a behavior and makes that behavior less likely to occur again.
What is a punisher?
The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of time passes.
What is spontaneous recovery?
Explain what the Contingency Theory stated.
As the number of parings between CS and US increases, the association increases - this was originally stated by Pavlov. Rescorla will argued that it was the cause and effect of the CS and US that caused the learning to take place.
Give an example of a Primary, Immediate, and Negative Reinforcer.
Answers will vary.
After I failed the test, I studied for a period of time every night for the rest of the year.
Variable Interval