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What is associative learning?
When we learn that events go together.
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What are respondent behaviors?
Classical conditioning focuses on this type of behavior.
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What is a reinforcer?
This is a consequence that follows a behavior and makes it more likely to reoccur.
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What are superstitious behaviors?
These behaviors occur when we are randomly reinforced for doing something.
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What is expectancy?
We learn ______, which shows that our thoughts about a reward's predictability influence our behavior.
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What is a stimulus?
Anything that causes a response in someone.
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What is an unconditioned response (UR)?
A behavior that is an unlearned natural reaction to a stimulus (e.g., drooling when you smell food).
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What is positive or negative?
These words describe whether something was given or taken away that reinforces or punishes a behavior.
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What is modeling?
Punishing children with aggressive actions, may teach them to use aggression when they have problems with others because of this type of learning.
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Who is Albert Bandura?
This psychologist was the first to empirically study observational learning in children with a bobo doll.
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What is cognitive learning?
Learning through observation or language.
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What is extinction?
Occurs over time after the conditioned stimulus (e.g., tone) is repeated without the unconditioned stimulus (e.g., food) and the conditioned response lessens.
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What is shaping?
Skinner used this technique to teach animals, such as pigeons, unnatural behaviors by reinforcing successive approximations of the behavior he wanted them to perform.
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What is a fixed-ratio?
When you receive a free gift every time you accumulate a certain number of shopping points, the store has you on a _______ reinforcement schedule.
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What is intrinsic motivation?
Our desire to perform a behavior for its own sake, which may be more meaningful than a reward.
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What is latent learning?
Type of learning that occurs without rewards or punishments; but will be displayed when there is an incentive to show it.
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What is generalization?
When a conditioned response is elicited by a similar stimulus to the conditioned stimulus (e.g., a white bunny in the case of Little Albert who was conditioned to fear white rats).
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What is fixed-interval?
This type of reinforcement schedule only occurs after a specified amount of time has elapsed and becomes predictable, so the individual tends to increase the behavior closer to the expected reward time.
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What is negative reinforcement?
Parents who positively punish a child for bad behavior by spanking are likely continue spanking because of this.
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What are mirror neurons?
It is believed that we have ______ which are activated by watching others and increases our empathic abilities.
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What are biological predispositions?
These limit how easy or difficult a behavior is to learn, and can cause learned behaviors to drift toward instinctual behaviors.
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What is spontaneous recovery?
When a conditioned response reappears after a period in which the response has extinguished.
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What is a secondary reinforcer?
Money is an example of this type of reinforcer because it has to be learned that it is a good thing to have.
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What is behavior suppression (or discrimination)?
Physically punished behavior is likely to reoccur in other contexts or outside of the punisher's awareness because of this.
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What are cognitive maps?
We create these mental representations, which is evidenced in rats who learn mazes without external incentives.
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