Learning Definitions
Learning Psychologists
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The process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses.
What is Conditioning
100
know for investigating the role of saliva in digestion , using dogs as his experimental subjects.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
100
Scientist found that people who exercise daily live longer than those who don't.
What is Correlation Study
200
The process of learning associations between stimuli.
What is Classical Conditioning
200
Founded behaviorism in the early 1900s, emphasizing the scientific study of observable behaviors.
Who is John Broadus Watson
200
Calvin was chased by and assaulted by a rooster when he was little. Now as an adult he still gets a little blips in his stomach when he hears the word rooster, and he says birds make him nervous.... what is the Conditioned Response?
What is Gets Nervous
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The learned reflexive response to a conditioned stimulus.
What is Conditioned Response
300
Demonstrated the taste aversions could be produced in laboratory rats under controlled conditions.
Who is John Garcia
400
The natural stimulus that reflexively elicits a response without the need for prior learning.
What is Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
400
The first psychologist to systematically investigate animal learning and how voluntary behaviors are influenced by their consequences.
Who is Edward Lee Thorndike
500
The occurrence of a learned response to a specific stimulus but not to other , similar stimuli.
What is Stimulus Discrimination
500
Believed that psychology should restrict itself to studying only phenomena that could be objectively measured and verified.
Who is Burrhus Frederick Skinner