Classical Conditioning
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Biology and Cognition in Learning
Observational Learning
Behaviorism's Founders
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A type of associative learning, also referred to as Pavlovian, in which two or more stimuli are linked.

What is Classical Conditioning?

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A type of learning in which a behavior is shaped if followed by a reward or a punishment.

What is operant conditioning?

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The tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically disposed patterns.

What is instinctive drift?

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The perception that we control our own fate.

What is internal locus of control?

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He created an experiment showing that children follow modeled behavior of adults.

Who is Albert Bandura?

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A tube was inserted in the animal's cheek that collects saliva, which is measured in a cylinder outside the chamber.

What is Pavlov's dog studies?

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This is the best selling Sony licensed game of all time.

What is The Last of Us (20,000,000 units sold)?

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This silver screen Captain, recently won his defamation case against his abusive ex-girlfriend.

Who is Johnny Depp?

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An unlearned, naturally occurring response.

What is an UR?

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Its presentation increases behaviors through positive rewards.

What is positive reinforcement?

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Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

What is latent learning?

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The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification (in order to ace our AP Psych exam).

What is self-control?

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His work on taste aversion is now standard psychology.

Who is Garcia or Who is Koelling?

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A boy learned to fear a white rat after repeatedly experiencing a loud noise as the rat appeared.

What is the Little Albert Experiment?

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This is the best selling Microsoft licensed game of all time. It's also the number one best selling game of all time.

What is Minecraft?

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He reignited his engine in 2022, reprising his role as ace pilot Maverick.

Who is Tom Cruise?

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A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.

What is a neutral stimulus (NS)?

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This increases behaviors by stopping or reducing aversive stimuli.

What is negative reinforcment?

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A sudden realization of a problem's solution.

What is insight?

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The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.

What is modeling?

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This researcher studied and taught about the different types of parenting styles.

Who is Diana Baumrind?

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A fish reward enticed cats to find their way out of a puzzle box through a series of maneuvers.

What is the Thorndike Puzzle Box Experiment?

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The First mobile game was released in 1994. It was pre-installed as Tetris on one phone. This game was next in 1997 which was very successful and became one of the most played video games ever. It's been found on over 400 million devices over the years and is still available on Lumia smartphones.

What is Snake?

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This footballer is known for his famous goal celebration consisting of him jumping, hitting a pose, and yelling, "SUI"

Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?

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An originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an US, comes to trigger a CR.

what is a CS?

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An event that tends to decrease behavior by withdrawing a rewarding stimulus.

what is negative punishment?

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A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake.

What is intrinsic motivation?

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The hopelessness and passive resignation experienced when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

What is learned helplessness



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He trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

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In this experiment the box has a bar that the animal needs to press in order to release a reward of food or water.

What is the Skinner Box Experiment?

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Battle Royal & Plunder are game modes in this series "Warzone".

What is Call of Duty?

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He currently holds the record at many Olympic running events and strikes his famous "lightning bolt" pose after races.

Who is Usain Bolt?

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A procedure in which the CS is paired with a new NS, creating a 2nd (often weaker) CS.

What is higher-order conditioning?

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Behaviors followed by favorable or unfavorable consequences are more or less, respectively, likely.

What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?

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A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.

What is a cognitive map?

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Frontal lobe neurons that are believed to fire when observing others.

What are mirror neurons?

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He trained rats and pigeons using operant conditioning to perform specific behavior to get food.

Who is B.F. Skinner?

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Morrowind & Skyrim are iterations of this "Venerable" set of games

What is the Elder Scrolls?

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He has acted as Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Rick Deckard.

Who is Harrison Ford?

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The initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus (NS) and an US; or associating a response with a consequence.

What is acquisition?

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A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses and produces the highest rates of responses.

What is a variable-ratio schedule?

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When exposure to a repeated stimulus makes you less responsive.

What is habituation?

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Another term for observational learning.

What is social learning?

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He trained a 6th month old baby to fear white rats.

Who is John Watson?

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"Alamut" a 1938 novel by Vladimr Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game, this "creed"

What is Assassin's Creed?

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He sang "Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?"

Who is Eminem?

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The diminishing of a CR when an US no longer follows a CS; or decreased responses without reinforcement.

What is extinction?

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This schedule produces a choppy start-stop pattern of responses.

What is a fixed-interval schedule?

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The capacity to learn new behaviors to survive in your surroundings.

What is adaptability?

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Prolonged exposure to violence can lead to this phenomenon.

What is desensitization?

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This psychologist established Law of Effect forming the basis for all conditioning.

Who is Edward Thorndike?

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With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in the video game series based the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski

What is the Witcher?

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She sang "All the single ladies Now put your hands up"

Who is Beyonce?

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The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished CR.

What is spontaneous recovery?

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This schedule produces a slow, steady response and the greatest resistance to extinction.

What is a variable-interval schedule?

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A theory that individuals are more likely to engage in a behaviour or activity if they witness another individual being rewarded for that activity or behaviour.

What is vicarious reinforcement?

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This refers to constructive behaviors that add to the development of society.

What are prosocial behaviors?

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Developed a contingency model of conditioning, saying that the conditioned stimulus must reliably and clearly predict the presence of the unconditioned stimulus or else there won’t be a response.

Who is Robert Rescorla?

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This Greek God made his way to Midgard for retirement, only to be hounded by the Norse God Baldur.

Who is Kratos?

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They sang "It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the dream of the fight"

Who is Survivor?