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Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Social Learning
Who's who
Studies and Miscelaneous
100
An ordinary neutral event that, after training, leads to a response such as salivation
What is a conditioned stimulus?
100
Responses that that follow one another in a sequence.
What is a response chain?
100
Learning that focuses on how information is obtained, processed, and organized using mental processes.
What is cognitive learning?
100
Showed children how to beat on an inflatable doll in a social learning experiment using modeling.
Who was Albert Bandura?
100
Mental disorders that respond well to behavior modification.
What are phobias?
200
The ability to respond differently to different stimuli.
What is discrimination
200
Learning from the consequences of behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
200
The systematic application of learning principles to change people's actions and feelings.
What is behavior modification?
200
Discovered classical conditioning while measuring a dog's salivation.
What is Ivan Pavlov?
200
Scientists classically conditioned an infant to fear by pairing furry stimuli with a loud noise,
What is the Little Albert experiment?
300
A person's or animal's old response becomes attached to a new stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
300
The removal of a painful or unpleasant stimulus to encourage a specific response.
What is negative reinforcement?
300
learning through observation and imitation.
What is modeling?
300
Articulated the theory of latent learning.
Who was Edward Tolman?
300
Giving your dog a treat as a reward for performing a trick or required behavior.
What is an example of operant conditioning?
400
The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
400
Stimulus or event that increases the likelihood that behavior will be repeated.
What is reinforcement?
400
Learning that is not demonstrated by an immediately observable change in behavior at the time of the learning?
What is latent learning?
400
Trained rats and pigeons to perform specific tasks through system of rewards (reinforcement).
Who was B.F. Skinner?
400
Where children observed model doing a behavior then repeated the behavior themselves.
What was the Bobo Doll experiment?
500
The school of thought that one should only study relationships between observable stimuli and observable responses.
What is behaviorism?
500
A process in which reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses out of old ones.
What is shaping?
500
People are systematically paid to act appropriately.
What is token economy?
500
Paired mutton with a chemical that made coyotes sick to condition them from attacking sheep?
Who is John Garcia (and Gustavson)?
500
A stimulus that does not initially elicit a response.
What is a neutral stimulus?