Psychology - Conditioning

Classical conditioning

• Natural and involuntary behavior, creates an link between an unconditioned stimuli and a neutral one.

Operant conditioning

• Operant conditioning is based and learned off of punishment and reinforcement so a behavior is removed or learned

Acquisition

developing a classical response

Extinction

diminishing learned response

Spontaneous recovery

the recovery of a response after a long time of it not happening

Stimulus discrimination

different responses to different stimuli

stimulus generalization

treating the stimulus similar

John Watson is considered the founded of this school of psychology:

Behaviorism

Positive

1. Something that is added

Negative

1. Something taken away

Reinforcement

• increases behavior

Punishment

decreases behavior

primary

Reinforcer that is a natural reinforcer, something that isn't learned

secondary

Something that is learned, and only has value when linked to a primary reinforcer.

fixed

- Number of responses between reinforcements

Variable

amount of time between responses and reinforcements

interval

schedule based on time between reinforcements

Ratio

schedule is based on the number of responses between reinforcements