AP Psych: Classical and Operant Conditioning Quiz (12/10/24)

behavioral perspective

focuses on learned behaviors

association

mental connection formed between two events, stimuli, or ideas

conditioning

specific learning process that uses associations to shape behavior based on experiences and repetition

classical conditioning

learning by linking; the process of making connections between 2 things; how we learn that one thing is related to another

unconditioned stimulus

something that naturally causes a reaction

unconditioned response

the natural reaction to the stimulus

conditioned stimulus

something that doesn’t naturally cause the reaction but gets paired with the unconditioned stimulus

conditioned response

the learned reaction to the conditioned stimulus