Operant Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Thinking
Memory
Emotion and Motivation
100

A response or behavior that is increased by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome or aversive stimulus.

What is negative reinforcement?

100

In Pavlov's classical conditioning, the term conditioned is approximately synonymous with this word.

What is learned?

100

The set of skills used to invent, discover, explore, imagine, and suppose.

What is creativity (creative intelligence)?

100

The set of processes that are used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.

What is memory? 

100

A subjective, affective state of being that we often describe as our feelings.

What are emotions?

200

The response is reinforced only part of the time.

What is partial reinforcement?
200

The gradual weakening of a conditioned response resulting in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.

What is extinction?

200

A mental representation of events or objects drawn from personal experience.

What is a natural concept?

200

The type of memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.

What is explicit memory?

200

The wants or needs that direct behavior toward a goal.

What is motivation?

300

The repeated reinforcement of a behavior every time it happens.

What is continuous reinforcement?

300

In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between these two types of stimuli.

What are the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus?

300

This type of intelligence involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems.

What is fluid intelligence?

300

You repeat it to yourself over and over again until you feel like you won’t forget it.

What is rehearsal? 

300

A pattern of behavior in which we regularly engage.

What is a habit?

400

These types of reinforcers have innate reinforcing qualities.

What are primary reinforcers?

400

This theory explains that the immediate associations involved in conditioned taste aversion are a result of adaptation that helps us learn to avoid foods that are potentially harmful.

What is the evolutionary theory?

400

Norms and expected behavior from people with a specific set of functions in society.

What is role schema?

400

Information about events we have personally experienced.

What is episodic memory? 

400

Deviations from homeostasis create physiological needs that then push us to behave.

What is drive theory?

500

Behavior charts are an example of this type of partial reinforcement.

What is a fixed ratio reinforcement schedule?

500

The re-emergence of conditioned responding to an extinguished conditioned stimulus (CS) with the passage of time since extinction.

What is spontaneous recovery?

500

Our tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future.

What is the availability heuristic?

500

Remembering the state capitols.

What is semantic memory? 

500

Smiling can make someone feel happier.

What is the facial feedback hypothesis?