A stimulus that elicits a response without prior conditioning
What is UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS
100
Learning process in which stimulus-stimulus contingencies modify respondent behavior, so that a previously neutral stimulus, the CS comes to elicit a response, the CR
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
100
Anything an organism does
What is BEHAVIOR
100
Position emphasizing: (a) behavior as on of object of study in it's own right, (b) and the search for causes of behavior in the environment of either the individual organism or the species
What is RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
200
Behavioral change that results from the removal of a CS-US contingency, expressed in terms of the reduced strength of the CR or the reduced eliciting function of the CS
What is CLASSICAL EXTINCTION
200
Reliable production of a response by a stimulus in unconditioned or conditioned reflexes
What is ELICITATION
200
Position that some knowledge is innate and therefore does NOT depend on the individual's past experience
What is NATIVISM
200
Position that all events of the world including behavior, are the result of physical causes that can in principle be known and understood by scientific methods
What is DETERMINISM
300
A stimulus that elicits a response as a result of prior conditioning
What is CONDITIONED STIMULUS
300
A CS that increases the strength of a CR
What is EXCITATORY CONDITIONED STIMULUS
300
An unlearned stimulus-response relation in which a stimulus reliably elicits a stereotyped pattern of movement of a part of the body
What is REFLEX
300
Attribute of experiments designed and executed so that clear inferences can be drawn about the casual relation between the independent and dependent variables
What is INTERNAL VALIDITY
400
A response elicited by a stimulus without prior conditioning
What is UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE
400
A class of responses defined in terms of stimuli that reliably produce them.
What is RESPONDENT
400
Position that all knowledge is gained through experience during the life of the individual organism.
What is EMPIRICISM
500
Relation between two stimuli, a CS and a US defined in terms of the conditional probability of the US given the presentation or omission of the CS
What is CS-US CONTINGENCY
500
A CS that reduces the strength of a CR
What is INHIBITORY CONDITIONED STIMULUS
500
Learning process in which the strength of a response decreases as a function of repeated presentations of, or continuous exposure to, a stimulus that previously elicited the response
What is HABITUATION
500
Position that psychology should restrict its attention to overt behavior that can be measured directly