Behavioral Psychology Concepts

Flashcards covering key terms and concepts related to behavioral psychology, including classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and reinforcement.

Classical Conditioning

Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that produces the reflex.

Ivan Pavlov

Discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs.

Conditioned Taste Aversion

The development of an aversive response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by nausea.

Operant Conditioning

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

Reinforcement

Any event or stimulus that, when following a response, increases the probability that the response will occur again.

Positive Reinforcement

The reinforcement of a response by the addition or experience of a pleasurable stimulus.