The term used for an initially neutral stimulus that creates a conditional response after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
What is conditional stimulus?
100
The process in which a stimulus or event strengthens the response that it follows.
What is reinforcment?
100
Mother hits her son after he curses at her.
What is positive punishment?
100
This psychologist initially studied digestion in dogs salivation but ended up discovering conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
When only some occurrences of a response are reinforced.
What is intermittent (or partial) reinforcement?
200
The term used for a stimulus that already creates a certain response without additional learning.
What is unconditioned stimulus?
200
The process by which a response becomes more likely to occur or less likely to occur depending on the consequences.
What is operant conditioning?
200
Dog is rewarded for doing a trick properly.
What is positive reinforcement?
200
This psychologist used rats to test operant conditioning by shocking the rats when they were wrong and feeding them when they were right.
Who is Skinner?
200
A scientific discipline concerned with developing techniques based on the principles of learning and applying these to change behavior of social significance
What is applied behavior analysis?
300
The term used for a response that is created after the conditioned stimulus is paired with the unconditioned stimulus.
What is conditioned response?
300
When a response is followed by the removal of or decrease in intensity of an unpleasant stimulus
What is negative reinforcement?
300
Teacher takes away student's phone after she is caught cheating.
What is negative punishment?
300
This psychologist studied children's behavior after observing an adult "attacking" a doll by kicking, punching and dropping it.
Who is Bandura?
300
A response that is triggered by one reinforcer may occur in the presence of a different, similar reinforcer.
What is stimulus generalization?
400
The term used for a response created by an unconditional stimulus.
What is unconditional response?
400
Stimuli that have acquired reinforcing properties through associations with other reinforcers.
What is secondary reinforcer?
400
There is a green light and the driver behind you won't stop beeping. As soon as he stops beeping his horn, you decide to go.
What is negative reinforcement?
400
This researcher placed rats into a maze to study learning that cognitive changes that occur in the absence of reinforcement.
Who is Tolman?
400
To teach complex behaviors, one may need to reinforce successive approximations of a desired response.
What is shaping?
500
The term used for the weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response.
What is extinction?
500
A stimulus that is punishing.
What is primary punisher?
500
The cat clawed at the curtain and his owner sprayed him with water.
What is positive punishment?
500
This group of researchers studied how praise affects children’s intrinsic motivation.
Who are Lepper, Greene, & Nisbett?
500
A neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus by being paired with an existing conditioned stimulus.