Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning 2
Reinforcement Schedules
Misc.
100
Studied digestion in dogs
What is Ivan Pavlov
100
If sequences of a behavior are pleasant, stimulus response, then the connection is strengthened and behavior increases. If consequences of a behavior are unpleasant, the stimulus response connection will weaken and behavior will decrease
What is the Law of Effect
100
Allows one to terminate an aversive stimulus
What is escape learning
100
Constant pattern of reinforcement
What is a fixed schedule
100
Studied violence and children
What is the Bobo Doll experiment
200
Neutral stimulus paired with the Unconditioned Stimulas that eventually elicits response alone
What is the conditioned stimulus
200
Person who believed the consequence was instrumental in shaping behavior - instrumental learning
What is Edward Thorndike
200
Add something pleasant to increase a behavior
What is positive reinforcement
200
Provides reinforcement after set number of responses
What is a Fixed Ratio
200
Can model pre-social behaviors - imitate and behavior
What is social learning
300
Learning has taken place once the animals respond to the Conditioned Stimulus without the Unconditioned Stimulus
What is acquisition
300
Remove something to decrease a behavior - i.e: no car
What is omission training
300
Food, water, rest
What is a primary reincorcer
300
Certain amount of time elapses before the behavior gets reinforced
What is Fixed Interval
300
Learning that becomes obvious only once reinforcement is given for demonstrating it
What is latent learning
400
Unconditioned Stimulus followed by the Conditioned Stimulus
What is backward conditioning
400
Anything that makes behavior more likely to occur
What is reinforcement
400
Teaching not to discriminate and press only the lever
What is discrimination
400
More resistant to extinction
What is a variable schedule
400
Understanding concepts - not just learning to press a bar
What is abstract learning
500
Once CS brings CR it is possible to use the CS as a US to condition response to a new stimulus
What is second or higher order conditioning
500
Respond to stimuli similar to original
What is generalization
500
What functions as a reinforcer for someone will not have the same effect on others
What is the Premack Principle
500
Animal's wont go against their instinctive behavior even for rewards
What is the Instinctive Drift
500
When one suddenly realized how to solve a problem
What is Insight Learning