Ivan Pavlov - famous for inventing classical conditioning, conducted an experiment where he trained dogs to salivate to a tone using classical conditioning

Intermittent reinforcement - reinforcing a certain behavior only sometimes that behavior is performed

Continuous reinforcement - reinforcing a certain behavior every time it is performed

Positive reinforcement - STRENGTHEN a behavior by adding a reward to the situation

Negative reinforcement - STRENGTHEN a behavior by removing something you don’t like from the equation

Operant conditioning - learning by consequences in which rewards motivate one to continue that behavior and punishments teach one to discontinue that behavior

John B. Watson - a behaviorist who invented operant conditioning

B.F. Skinner - a behaviorist who invented operant conditioning and is known for one of his prototypes Skinner’s box in which operant conditioning was tested on a rat

Classical Conditioning - learning by the association of two events in which when this thing happens, this other thing follows

Albert Bandura - conducted the Bobo Doll experiment to study observational learning. in this experiment group A of kids was shown gentle behavior to the doll and group B was shown violent and mean behavior. Both groups copied the behavior that they observed.

Bobo Doll Experiment - group A of kids was shown gentle behavior to the doll and group B was shown violent and mean behavior. Both groups copied the behavior that they observed.

Observational Learning - a type of learning in which the learning happens through observations

Mirror Neurons - frontal lobes that some scientists believe fire when seeing someone or performing a certain action