Operant Conditioning
What kind of learning occurs through reward and punishment?
Operant Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
The relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.
What is learning?
What is the name of the element of observational learning that involves remembering what the model did?
Memory
When referring to reinforcement, food and water is an example of what?
Primary reinforcers
What is the biggest name behind the study of operant conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
The founding father of classical conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Any consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior.
What is punishment?
What is the experiment that demonstrated observational learning that involved kids that we talked about in class?
Bobo Doll Experiment
An event that strengthens the behavior it follows is known as what?
Reinforcement
If an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated and vice versa.
What is the Law of Effect?
When you have a bad experience with food and never want to eat it again.
Conditioned Taste Diversion
Any event that increases the likelihood of a behavior.
What is a reinforcement?
What is the element of observational learning that involves the learned copying the actions of the model?
Imitation
A dog is tired to a tree for a year. After that year, he is tied to a water bottle. Knowing he can possibly move but will not move is an example of what?
Learned helplesness
An operant learning technique in which a new behavior is produced by reinforcing responses that are similar to the desired response
What is shaping?
Unconditioned Response
When learning has occurred but it may not be apparent until an incentive has been given to the test subject to demonstrate their learning.
When you have that "AHA" experience is also known as what type of learning?
Insight
An event that is reinforcing through it's link with a primary reinforcer is known as what?
Secondary Reinforcer
Your mom is nagging at you to study but stops nagging when you finally start to study. What is this an example of?
Negative Reinforcement
What is the process called that Little Albert goes through when he is continually presented with the white rat and the loud noise to strengthen his conditioned response?
Aquisition
Learning that certain events occur close together.
What is associative learning?
Frontal lobe nerve cells that fire when performing specific motor actions but also when observing others to do so.
What are mirror neurons?
Cognitive learning theory