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Learning is the relatively permanent behavior change due to experience (nurture).
Learning is....
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Conditional Response
What is the learned response to a stimulus called?
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Ivan Pavlov.
Who is the pioneer of the the study of behaviorism, otherwise known as the study of psychology based on observable behavior?
100
Associative learning, or the connecting of events that occur one after the other. Associations can be good, like singing the birthday song, which connects to eating birthday cake, or they can be undesirable, like the lightning and thunder.
When you see lightning, you expect thunder to follow. What is this type of learning called?
100
Pavlovian conditioning.
What is another term for classical conditioning?
200
An unconditional response is the unlearned, involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus.
What is an unconditional response?
200
Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli.
Classical conditioning is...
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John B. Watson
Who is the one that stated that science of psychology should instead study how organisms respond to stimuli in their environments? (behaviorism)
300
Watson believed that behavior could be measured, trained and changed.
What is Behaviorism?
300
The diminishing of a conditioned response
What is extinction?
300
Showed how the CS signals an important biological event by conditioning the sexual arousal of male Japanese quail.
Michael Domjan
300
Only #1, that psychology is an objective science.
Behaviorism is the view that psychology should be: 1) an objective science that 2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Which one of the two, or both, or neither, do psychologists today agree with?
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Acquisition.
The initial phase in classical conditioning, or otherwise known as the phase associating a neutral stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response. The term in psychology associated with this behavior is...?
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The learned ability to distinguish between a conditional stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli.
What is discrimination?
400
Argued that when two significant events occur close together in time, an animal learns the predictability of the second event.
Allan Wagner
400
The unconditional stimulus/response, and the conditional stimulus/response: The food is the unconditioned stimulus. The salivation is the unconditioned response. The bell is the conditioned stimulus, which is connected to the unconditioned stimulus. The conditioned response is also the dogs' salivation.
When Pavlov constantly rang the bell and gave the dogs food, the dogs over time salivated simply when they heard the bell, emphasized which aspect of classical conditioning?
400
Observational learning.
If one animal watches another learn to solve a puzzle that gains a food reward, the animal watching may perform the trick more quickly. What is this type of learning called?
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Learning that certain events occur together. They could be two Stimuli (Something good or bad).
What is Associative learning?
500
The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?