Classical conditioning

Classical conditioning

Learning to prepare for signifcant events like food or pain

operant conditioning

Learning to repeat actions that give us rewards or avoiding actions that give us a negative outcome. 

cognitve learning

learning new behaviors from events, people and language. learning things that were not experienced nor observed

associative learning

learning that events occur together, events can be two stimuli or a response and consequences

stimulus

any event or situation that evokes a response 

respondent behavior

behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some simulus

cognitive learning

we acquire mental information that guides our behavior

observational learning

a form of cognitive learning, allows us to learn from others experiences

behaviorism 

the view that psychology studies behavior without reference to mental processes 

neutral stimuli

in classical conditioning, a stimulus the elicits no response before conditioning

unconditioned response

naturally occurring response

unconditional stimulus 

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

conditioned response

a learned response to a previously netural stimulus

conditioned stimulus

an originally neutral stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus

conditioning processes

acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization and discrimination

high order conditioning

builds a second level of learning on top of something like a learned response

discrimination 

Being able to recognize differences is adaptive  ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus (which predicts the US) and other, irrelevant stimuli

exinction

a learned behavior or response that fades away

learning

allowing us to adapt and understand environments and behaviors