Parenting Styles and Learning

These flashcards cover key concepts and definitions related to parenting styles, adolescent development, learning theories, and conditioning.

Authoritative Parenting

High warmth, moderate control, lots of conversation.

Authoritarian Parenting

Low warmth, high control, no conversation.

Permissive Parenting

High warmth, low control, low conversation.

Uninvolved Parenting

None in warmth, control, or conversation.

Adolescent Growth Spurt

The first sign of adolescence occurring during puberty.

Primary Sexual Characteristics

Involve reproductive organs directly.

Secondary Sexual Characteristics

Visible physical changes during puberty.

Identity vs Role Confusion

Erik Erikson's stage where adolescents explore and search for their identity.

Associative Learning

Learning that occurs when two stimuli or a behavior and a consequence are associated.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response.

Operant Conditioning

Learning through the consequences of behavior, either reinforcement or punishment.

Generalization

Occurs when responses learned in one situation occur in other similar situations.

Discrimination (in Learning)

When a subject learns to respond to a specific stimulus and not others.

Law of Effect

Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely.

Positive Reinforcement

Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers.

Negative Reinforcement

Increasing behaviors by stopping aversive stimuli.

Continuous Reinforcement

A schedule of reinforcement where every correct response is reinforced.

Partial Reinforcement

A schedule of reinforcement that does not reinforce every correct response.

Positive Punishment

Adding an aversive stimulus in response to undesired behavior.

Negative Punishment

Removing a rewarding stimulus in response to undesired behavior.