This is decreased responses with increased stimulation
What is habituation?
100
This is what it is called when you learn to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that does not produce an unconditioned stimulus (for example, fear of some furry animals but not others)
What is discrimination?
100
An example of this conditioning would be learning to connect putting money in a vending machine with candy
What is operant conditioning?
100
This is the type of reinforcement utilized when a dog begs and is rewarded every so often
What is partial reinforcement?
100
This is what happens when an animal watches another animal find a food reward and is able to increase the speed of learning
What is observational learning?
200
Sweating is an example of this type of response
What is unconditioned response?
200
This is what many POWs faced in Vietnam when they became apathetic and began starving themselves
What is learned helplessness?
200
This is conditioning which uses reinforcers to guide the individual to approximate correct behavior
What is shaping?
200
This is the type of reinforcement schedule used when you are rewarded by receiving a paycheck at the end of the week
What is fixed-ratio?
200
This is true of punishment
What is decreasing the rate of operant responding?
300
This is the type of response that you learn by connecting, for example, going to the dentist with pain
What is conditioned response?
300
This is the goal of a a therapist who works with a patient to eliminate a fear by forcing the patient to repeatedly revisit the fear
What is extinction?
300
This is the difference between positive and negative reinforcers
What is strengthening the response versus when removed, strengthens the response
300
This is the type of reinforcement that keeps gamblers spending money in slot machines
What is variable-ratio?
300
This is the type of punishment when your driver's license is taken for reckless driving
What is negative punishment?
400
This is what it is called when a CR reappears after a long period of time.
What is spontaneous recovery?
400
This behavior occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus
What is respondent behavior?
400
This is the type of reinforcer being used when a person runs every day to reduce level of stress
What is negative reinforcer?
400
This is the type of reinforcement used when receiving pop quizzes at unpredictable times during the semester
What is variable interval?
400
This is the type of learning that occurs when you have a "eureka" moment
What is insight?
500
This is what it is called when Little Albert learned to fear all furry animals and even a fur coat
What is generalization?
500
This law refers to the tendency to repeat behaviors that are rewarded
What is the law of effect?
500
This is the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers
What is a reinforcer that fills a biological need versus a reinforcer that fills a social need?
500
This is true of negative reinforcement
What is increasing the rate of operant responding?
500
These two types of motivation occur when you do things because of your internal motivation or you do things because of an anticipated reward