Learning
Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning and Observational Learning
What are the three types of learning?
What is a secondary reinforcer?
Unconditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Neutral Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Response
What are the 5 components of classical conditioning?
The condition which disrupts previous memories and causes retrieval failure.
What is retrograde amnesia?
He paired dogs, a bell and food in this well know classical conditioning experiment.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
Something learned, but is not manifested as a behavioral change until the future.
The device which introduces positive (food) and negative (shock) reinforcement based on animal response
What is the Skinner box
Unconditioned Response and Conditioned Response
Which 2 components of classical conditioning are always the same?
Intentionality, unity, selectivity and transience.
What are the four basic principals of consciousness?
_____________ is the author of the Law of Effect
Who was Edward Thorndike?
Variable ratio, fixed ratio, variable interval and fixed interval
An event or object that is inherently reinforcing
What is a primary reinforcer?
Something that does not naturally elicit a response.
What is the neutral stimulus?
Low level, response to senses, lack of recollection and sleeping.
What are characteristics to minimal consciousness?
The author of the "Bobo Doll" experiment.
Who was Albert Bandura?
Learning that takes place largely independent of awareness of both the process and product acquisition
What is implicit learning?
Presenting an aversive stimulus after a behavior that decreases the likelihood of future repeat.
What is positive punishment?
The elimination of learned behavior caused by repeatedly presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
An irrational decision based on previous investment, that you must go on.
He argues that playing violent video games directly increase a teen or pre-teens tendency toward violence.
Who is Jay Hull
What are the 3 processes of memory?
The use of successive approximation (incremental) to ultimately get desired behavior
What is shaping in operant conditioning?
A more complex form of conditioning where a new stimulus is paired with an already conditioned stimulus
What is second-order conditioning?
A time limit is given for you to identify as many possible "outside the box" uses for a common item.
What is the alternative use task?
He argues that any increase in violence because of video game play is negligible.
Who is Christopher Ferguson?