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Ivan Pavlov
Famous for inventing classical conditioning, conducted an experiment where he trained dogs to salivate to a tone using classical conditioning.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Reinforcing a certain behavior only sometimes that behavior is performed.
Continuous Reinforcement
Reinforcing a certain behavior every time it is performed.
Positive Reinforcement
Strengthen a behavior by adding a reward to the situation.
Negative Reinforcement
Strengthen a behavior by removing something you don't like from the equation.
Operant Conditioning
Learning by consequences in which rewards motivate one to continue that behavior and punishments teach one to discontinue that behavior.
John B
A behaviorist who invented operant conditioning.
B.F
A behaviorist who invented operant conditioning and is known for one of his prototypes Skinner's box in which operant conditioning was tested on a rat.
Classical Conditioning
Learning by the association of two events in which when this thing happens, this other thing follows.
Albert Bandura
Conducted the Bobo Doll experiment to study observational learning. In this experiment, group A of kids was shown gentle behavior to the doll and group B was shown violent and mean behavior. Both groups copied the behavior that they observed.
Bobo Doll Experiment
Group A of kids was shown gentle behavior to the doll and group B was shown violent and mean behavior. Both groups copied the behavior that they observed.
Observational Learning
A type of learning in which the learning happens through observations.
Mirror Neurons
Frontal lobes that some scientists believe fire when seeing someone or performing a certain action.
