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Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Cognitive Approach
Miscellaneous
100
A relatively permanent change in immediate or potential behavior that results from experience.
What is learning?
100
The behaviorist who discovered classical conditioning by studying the salivation of dogs when given meat powder
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
This is when a favorable stimulus is given to the subject after it performs a desired task
What is positive reinforcement?
100
This person studied with monkeys. He came up with the concept that if one expects, then one has memories relating to the expectation
Who is Tinklepaugh?
100
This is one effect of learning that allows it to have long term impact
What is permanency?
200
When a subject is caught in an unpleasant stimuli and tries to escape from it.
What is escape learning?
200
This causes a reflex or a natural behavior when presented to an animal
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
200
This states that if a behavior is reinforced, it will continue; if a behavior is punished, it will stop
What is the law of effect?
200
This is also known as the ah-ha moment, where one instantly thinks of a solution to a problem, or recalls something
What is insight learning?
200
This is a natural behavior responding to an unconditioned stimulus
What is a reflex?
300
When a subject tries to avoid an unpleasant stimuli, trying to avoid it as best as possible.
What is avoidance learning?
300
This is a learned response to the paring of a conditioned stimulus to an unconditioned stimulus
What is a conditioned response?
300
This is the process of getting the subject to execute a behavior that is similar to the desired behavior
What is shaping?
300
Sigmund Freud influenced these two; they came up with the concept of frustration and aggression in humans
Who are Miller and Dollard?
300
He is the subject Watson's classical conditioning experiement
Who is Little Albert?
400
A type of social learning, when a subject spectates an event, the subject will try to mimic
What is vicarious conditioning?
400
This is when the subject responds to a stimulus that is similar to the conditioned stimulus
What is generalization?
400
The process of making the subject execute a series of behavior in a row
What is chaining?
400
This person studied monkeys in Africa, and came up with the concept of insight learning
Who is Wolfgang Kohler?
400
He is the person who did who did operant conditioning experiment with a box and a cat
Who is Thorndike?
500
When a subject learns that any actions will not change the response from the environment, the subject stops trying to resist
What is learned helplessness?
500
This is when the subject remembers the conditioned response after a period of extinction
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
This is something that satisfies biological drives
What is a primary reinforcer?
500
This person came up with the idea that there is not cognition in animals; they learn through trial and error
Who is Edward Tolman?
500
This is a form of operant conditioning, where subjects get an object that can be exchanged for actual rewards
What is token economy?