Learning Basics
This is the definition of learning.
What is a change in behavior or knowledge caused by experience?
Classical conditioning is learning by this.
What is association?
This scientist discovered classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Operant conditioning is learning based on these.
What are consequences of behavior?
This increases behavior.
What is reinforcement?
Psychology studies behavior and these internal processes.
What are mental processes?
In classical conditioning, the response is usually this type of reaction.
What is automatic (involuntary)?
In Pavlov’s experiment, dogs naturally salivated when they saw this.
What is food?
This psychologist studied operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This decreases behavior.
What is punishment?
Learning can happen through experience, practice, or this.
What is observation?
A stimulus is defined as this.
What is something that triggers a response?
Pavlov repeatedly paired food with this sound.
What is a bell?
In operant conditioning, behavior is usually this type.
What is voluntary?
Giving praise for good work is this type of reinforcement.
What is positive reinforcement?
If your thinking or behavior changes because of experience, this has occurred.
What is learning?
If a dog responds to many similar sounds after training, this has occurred.
What is generalization?
Eventually the dogs salivated when hearing the bell even without food. This shows they learned an _____.
What is an association?
Study → good grade → study more. This is an example of this learning type.
What is operant conditioning?
Taking away someone's phone after breaking a rule is this type of punishment.
What is negative punishment?