Classical Conditioning
Learning Scenarios
Learning Continued
All Learning Terms
Operant Conditioning
100

Not trained or taught, naturally occurring

What is Unconditioned

100

 Embarrassing a student for giving a wrong answer.

What is positive punishment

100

In Pavlov's Dog experiment, the bell after being paired with the food becomes what kind of stimulus?

Conditioned Stimulus. Before the food (unconditioned stimulus) was paired with the bell, the bell was a neutral stimulus, as the bell without the presence of food did not generate a response from the dog. After pairing the bell with the food, the dog began to salivate at the sound of the bell.

100

a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience.

What is Learning

100

Reinforcement is delivered at predictable time intervals (Example: Receiving a paycheck every Friday)

What is Fixed Interval Schedule

200

The initial period of learning when an organism learns to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

What is Acquisition

200

Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.

What is the CS

200

I get a chicken sandwich at a sketchy gas station. After, I get horrible food poisoning and spend an entire night vomiting. Now I cannot eat chicken sandwiches at all. What kind of conditioning did I experience?

Conditioned Taste Aversion. 

200

Founder of Behaviorism; Conducted the controversial "Little Albert Experiment"

Who is Watson

200

Punishment is when something is added in the consequence in order to discourage behavior  

What is a Positive punishment

300

The Conditioned Stimulus in the story of Pavlov's Dogs

What is the Bell

300

Taking an aspirin to relieve a headache

Is what type of conditioning? 

300

When I first started potty training my dog, I praised her and gave her a treat every time she went for about a week. After a week, I stopped praising her and giving her treats. Now she goes in the house again. Which component of conditioning is this?

Extinction. Extinction is the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.

300

Having no effect

Neutral

300

________Reinforcement is when something is taken in the consequence in order to encourage a behavior 

What is Negative Reinforcement

400

Something that initiates or elicits a response

What is a stimulus

400

A child begins to cry and yell in a grocery store because he/she doesn't have candy that they wanted. The mother, embarrassed at the noise, gives the child the candy, and the child stops crying. The next time the mother and child go to the store, the same situation happens. What kind of reinforcement toward the child is the mother demonstrating? 

Positive reinforcement

400

Breaking behaviors down into many small, achievable steps in order to teach a complex process

What is shaping

400

Conditioning occurs due to associating or connecting two stimuli or events that occur together

What is Classical Conditioning

400

Reinforcement is delivered after an unpredictable number of responses (Example: While playing a slot machine, a person might win after 7 tries, then 29 tries, then 11 tries, etc.)

What is Variable Ratio schedule

500

Stimulus ______________ is when an organism demonstrates the conditioned response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus. (This was seen in the story of Little Albert when Albert began to fear all furry things and animals after being conditioned to fear a rat).

What is generalization

500

Getting a small increase in your hourly wage every 6 months.


Which reinforcement schedule is this?

500

An individual receives frequent injections of drugs, which are administered in a small examination room at a clinic. The drug itself causes increased heart rate but after several trips to the clinic, simply being in a small room causes an increased heart rate.

This is an example of what type of conditioning?

500

Embarrassing a student for giving a wrong answer.

This is an example of what type of conditioning?

500

In order to be able to punish your cat when you’re not near enough to reach him, you have paired the sound of a clicker with getting squirted with water. Now the sound of the clicker causes him to startle.

What is the CS?