Psychology Chap 6 #1-18

learning

any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice

classical conditioning

learning in which one learns an involuntary response when a stimulus that normally causes a particular response is paired with a new neutral stimulus.

unconditioned stimulus

a naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary response

unconditioned response

an involuntary response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus

neutral stimulus

stimulus that has no effect on the desired response

conditioned stimulus

stimulus that becomes able to produce a learned reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus

conditioned response

learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus

stimulus generalization

the tendency to respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response

stimulus discrimination

the tendency to stop making a generalized response to be stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus

extinction

the disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal of a sense of the unconditioned stimulus or the removal of a reinforcer

spontaneous recovery

the reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occuredcon

conditioned emotion response

emotional response that has become classically conditioned to occur to learned stimuli, such as fear of dogs or the emotional reaction that occurs seeing an attractive person

vicarious conditioning

classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotional by watching the reaction of another person

conditioned taste aversion

development of a nauseated or aversive response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction occurring only after one association

operant conditioning

referring to the tendency of animals to learn certain associations, such as taste & nausea, with only one or few pairings due to the survival value of the learning

law of effect

law stating that is action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated & if followed by an unpleasant consequence it will tend not to be repeated

operant

any behavior that is voluntary

reinforcer

any event or object that when following a response increases the likelihood of that response occurring again