Learning that can occurs from seeing the consequences someone else gets for a behavior.
What is vicarious learning?
Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by pleasant outcomes are strengthened, while those with unpleasant outcomes are weakened.
What is the Law of Effect?
The reason you know how to get to your next class without help
cognitive map
our spoken, written, or gestured words
languagae
This schedule reinforces a desired behavior some of the time in no apparent pattern.
What is a variable interval Schedule?
These reinforcers gain value through association, like money or praise, rather than meeting biological needs.
What are secondary reinforcers?
A type of learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and is only demonstrated later when there is an incentive to do so.
What is latent learning?
smallest unit of sound produced
phoneme
If a test subject has been conditioned to salivate to a bell, but may also salivate to a whistle, we would consider it an example of this term.
What is stimulus generalization?
A learned behavior will go away when it stops being reinforced
extinction
negative and destructive behaviors
antisocial behavior
smallest unit of meaning
morphemes
BEST reinforcement schedule when learning a new behavior
What is Continuous Reinforcement Schedule
Being able to tell the difference between a Santa Clause mask and a rabbit
discrimination
This type of reinforcement schedule doesn’t reward every response but makes the behavior more resistant to extinction.
What is partial reinforcement?
positive and constructive behaviors .
Prosocial Behaviors
system of language rules
grammar
John B. Watson
The part of observational learning where someone is learning from someone else -- what are the "showers" doing?
What is modeling?
"I" qualifies as a(n)
phoneme, morpheme, word