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Psych Module 21-26
Unit 4 psychology
Term | Definition |
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Learning | The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors |
Associative Learning | Learning that two event happen together. |
Stimulus | Any situation or event that evokes a response. |
Respondent behavior | Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. |
Operant behavior | Behaviors that operate on the environment, producing consequences. |
Cognitive Learning | We learn things we have neither experienced nor observed. |
Classical conditioning | We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain. |
Behaviorism | |
Neutral Stimulus | |
Unconditioned Response | |
Unconditioned Stimulus | |
Conditioned Response | |
conditioned Stimulus | |
Acquisition | |
Extinction | |
Spontaneous Recovery | |
Generalization | |
Discrimination | |
Operant Conditioning | We learn to repeat acts that bring rewards and avoid acts that bring unwanted rewards |
Reinforcement | |
Positive Reinforcement | |
Negative Reinforcement | |
Primary Reinforcer | |
Conditioned Reinforcer | |
Reinforcement Schedule | |
Punishment |