AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 3: Learning Psychology Set I

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Learning

the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours

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Habituation

an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

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Stimulus

any event or situation that evokes a response

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Classical Conditioning

a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

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Neutral Stimulus

a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

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Unconditioned Response

an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

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Unconditioned Stimulus

a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response

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Conditioned Response

a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus

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Conditioned Stimulus

an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response

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Acquisition

when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response; the strengthening of a reinforced response

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Extinction

the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs when a response is no longer reinforced

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Spontaneous Recovery

the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

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Generalization

the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elect similar responses

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Discrimination

the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

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Operant Conditioning

a type of learning in which behaviour is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

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Law of Effect

Thorndike’s principle that behaviours followed by favourable consequences become more likely, and that behaviours followed by unfavourable consequences become less likely

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Reinforcement

any event that strengthens the behaviour it follows

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Shaping

an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behaviours toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behaviour

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Discriminative Stimulus

a stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement

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Positive Reinforcement

increasing behaviours by presenting positive reinforcers

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