Classical Conditioning
Your cat hears a loud noise and jumps automatically. In this example, the loud noise could be considered a:
What is the US in the example above?
Your friend yawns and it automatically makes you yawn as well. Your yawn would be considered a:
What is the UR/CR in this example?
Your cat gets attacked by a dog while walking in your front yard. Now your cat stays in the back yard or in the house. Stimulus: front yard
What is the CS in this example?
Something that naturally causes a response without needing to be learned. For example, food makes a dog salivate automatically.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
When a learned behavior slowly stops happening because the thing that used to make it happen isn’t there anymore
What is extinction?
What is Mr. Wilson's favorite Christmas move?
What Home Alone?
it’s when a neutral stimulus is first repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus so the neutral stimulus starts to trigger the response on its own.
What is an acquisition?
On your way home from school there is a big dog that always barks at you. You start to feel uncomfortable when taking that route, so you take a new route home, past a smaller dog that is not so loud. Response: avoidance (take another route)
What is the conditioned response?
Changes in reflexive responding based on associations between the eliciting (to trigger) stimulus and a neutral stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
This type of consequence increases the likelihood of a behavior by adding a pleasant stimulus.
What is positive reinforcement?
This punishment involves removing a pleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior. Such as getting your phone taken up.
What is negative punishment?
This famous psychologist discovered classical conditioning with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This famous psychologist conducted the "Little Albert" experiment which proved that humans, like animals, can be classically conditioned to feel fear.
Who is John Watson?
What's the name of the stimulus that does not elicit (trigger) a response prior to conditioning?
Neutral stimulus
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Skinner's box was used to study what type of learning?
What is operant conditioning?
What is the natural response dogs had to food in Pavlov’s experiment?
What is salivation or drool?
This type of psychology says that observable actions are the most important way to understand humans?
What is behaviorism?
What term in classical conditioning means responding to stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus?
What is generalization?
What is the difference between positive and negative punishment in operant conditioning?
Positive punishment adds an unpleasant stimulus; negative punishment removes a pleasant stimulus.
What is generalization?
What physiological system of dogs did Pavlov study?
What is the digestive system?
After psychology, John Watson changed careers into what industry?
What is the advertising industry?
What is the most effective way to shape behavior?
What is positive reinforcement?