Involves a behavior you can't control.
What is Classical Conditioning
When learners engage in the skills we teach them in untrained but similar conditions.
What is Generalization
Involves a behavior you can choose to perform.
What is Operant Conditioning
Occurs when you want to get away from an unpleasant stimulus such as an annoyance or pain.
What is Escape Learning
The process of reinforcing each of the closer and closer approximations to a desired end behavior until the goal behavior is reached.
What is Shaping
A stimulus that automatically triggers some type of response.
What is Unconditioned Stimulus
When you "get" the learning: the association between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus takes place.
What is Acquisition
Rewards introduced to increase a behavior.
What is Reinforcement
If you give a signal, such as a tone, before the unwanted stimulus.
What is Avoidance Learning
A reward every time a behavior happens.
What is Continuous Reinforcement
What is Unconditioned Response
When a neutral stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus, so the conditioned response fades away.
What is Extinction
_______________ introduced to decrease a behavior.
What is Punishment
The addition of an unfavorable event or outcome in order to weaken the behavior it follows.
What is Positive Punishment
A reward some of the time a behavior happens.
What is Partial Reinforcement
An originally neutral stimulus that now triggers an automatic response.
What is Conditioned Stimulus
After a rest period, a conditioned response spontaneously reappears when the conditioned stimulus is presented.
What is Spontaneous Recovery
The addition of a reinforcing outcome following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will happen again.
What is Positive Reinforcement
The removal of a favorable event or outcome in order to weaken the behavior it follows.
What is Negative Punishment
A reinforcer that occurs naturally and their value doesn't need to be learned.
What is Primary Reinforcers
A learned, automatic response to the once neutral, but now conditioned stimulus.
What is Conditioned Response
The ability to respond differently to different stimuli that are similar.
A behavior is strengthened by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome or disliked stimulus.
When and how often a behavior is paired with a reinforcement.
What is Reinforcement Schedules
Learning that occurs through observation and imitation of others.
What is Observational Learning