A Greek Philosopher who was an empiricist. He suggested four laws of association.
law of similarity, contrast, contiguity, frequency
Who is Aristotle
100
A type of control group design in which different species constitute one of the independent variables.
What is a comparative design?
100
A stimulus that naturally elicits a response without any prior learning.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
100
tendency for a CR to occur in the presence of a stimulus that is similar to the CS
What is stimulus generalization?
100
Model of conditioning in which the NS is directly associated with the US.
What is the S-S model?
200
An approach promoted by Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Tichener
What is structuralism
200
The prolonged exposure to an event tends to decrease the appetitiveness of that event.
What is satiation?
200
the automatic response of jerking one's hand or foot away from a hot or sharp object.
What is flexion response?
200
the phenomenon in which the most salient member of a compound stimulus is more readily conditioned as the CS and thereby interferes with conditioning of the least salient member.
What is overshadowing?
200
Model of conditioning in which the NS is directly associated with the UR.
What is S-R model?
300
Principle that emphasizes the law of parsimony. That is, simpler explanations are preferred to more complex explanations.
What is Morgan's Canon?
300
the physical form of a behaviour
What is topography?
300
the reappearance of a habituated response to a stimulus following the presentation of another, seemingly irrelevant novel stimulus.
What is dishabituation?
300
a procedure in which a stimulus signals that a CS is likely to be followed by the US with which it is associated.
What is occasion setting?
300
treatment for phobia in which relaxation is paired with a stimuli that elicits fear.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
A neobehaviourist who suggested that intervening variables (physiological processes) should be used to explain the relationship between the environment and behaviour.
Who is Clark Hull?
400
a device that measures total responses over time and provides a graphic depiction of the rate of behaviour.
What is a cumulative recorder?
400
Conditioning in which the onset of the US precedes the presentation of the NS.
What is backward conditioning?
400
a complex stimulus that consists of the simultaneous presentation of two or more individual stimuli.
What is a compound stimulus?
400
strengthening of a fear response as a result of brief exposures to the aversive CS.
What is incubation?
500
An alternate term for applied behaviour analysis.
What is behaviour modification?
500
measurement of whether or not a behaviour occurs within a series of discontinuous intervals.
What is time-sample recording?
500
conditioning in which both the onset and offset of the NS occurs before the onset of the US
What is trace-conditioning?
500
Type of classical conditioning in which the CS is the passage of time.
What is temporal condition?
500
decrease in CR when two separately conditioned CSs are combined into a compound stimulus for further pairings with the US.