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Conditioning
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He taught the dogs to salivate when they heard a bell through conditioning.
What was Pavlov's experiment?
100
This person believes that each person can meet their full potential.
What did John Watson believe?
100
When a person can differentiate between two similar stimuli and respond differently to each.
What is discrimination?
100
The stimulus that isn't associated with the desired response.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
100
A behavior aquired by watching someone else act a certain way.
What is observational learning?
200
A study where a child was conditioned to be frightened by a rat.
What was the baby Albert experiment?
200
Adding something a person likes in order to encourage repeated behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
200
Apply the conditions of one situation to all similar situations.
What is generalization?
200
The stimulus that evokes the desired response.
What is a neutral stimulus?
200
When positive/negative reinforcement/punishment is used to cause a response.
What is operant conditioning?
300
A box used by B.F. Skinner in his experiments on conditioning with animals.
What is a Skinner box?
300
Removing something a person dislikes in order to encourage repeat behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
300
The disappearance of a conditioned response.
What is extinction?
300
A response that has been tied to the desired(unconditioned) stimulus.
What is a conditioned response?
300
In order to discourage a behavior, something the person doesn't like is added.
What is positive punishment?
400
States that if a behavior is followed by favorable consequences it will happen more frequently than if followed by unfavorable consequences.
What is Thorndike's law of relativity?
400
Natural rewards that satisfy bilogical needs.
What are primary reinforcers?
400
WHen conditioning is used to create a specific response.
What is shaping?
400
The stimulus that has been associated with the desired response.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
400
In order to discourage a behavior, something the person likes is taken away.
What is negative punishment?
500
Pavlov discovered.
what is operant conditioning?
500
Rewards often exchanged for primary reinforcers.
What are secondary reinforcers?
500
A person's capacity for learning.
What is aptitude?
500
A response that is natural and not tied to any abnormal stimulus.
What is an unconditioned response?
500
During intermitten reinforcement.
When do we recieve partial reinforcers?