Learning📝

Learning

the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors

Habituation

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

associative learning

learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning)

stimulus

any event or situation that evokes a response

respondent behavior

behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

operant behavior

behavior that operates on the environment, producing a consequence

cognitive learning

classical conditioning

behaviorism

neutral stimuli

unconditioned response

unconditioned stimulus

conditioned response

conditioned stimulus

higher-order conditioning

extinction

spontaneous recovery

generalization

discrimination

preparedness

operant conditioning

law of effect

operant chamber

reinforcement

shaping

discriminative stimulus

positive reinforcement

negative reinforcement

primary reinforcer

conditioned reinforcer

reinforcement schedule

continuous reinforcement schedule

partial (intermittent) reinforcement schedule

fixed-ratio schedule

variable-ratio schedule

fixed intervals schedule

variable interval schedule

punishment

positive punishment

negative punishment

instinctive drift

cognitive map

latent learning

insight learning

observational learning

modeling

mirror learning

prosocial behavior

antisocial behavior