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ALL the vocabulary in Unit 6 from Myer's Psychology for AP

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show a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience  
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show an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it  
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associative learning   show
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show a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events  
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show the view that psychology: (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)  
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show in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth  
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show in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers a response  
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conditioned response (CR)   show
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conditioned stimulus (CS)   show
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acquisition   show
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higherorder conditioning   show
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extinction   show
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spontaneous recovery   show
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generalization   show
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discrimination   show
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show the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events  
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show behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus  
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show a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforce or diminished followed by a punisher  
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operant behavior   show
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show Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more like, that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely  
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show in operant conditioning research, a chamber (also known as a Skinner box) containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain food or water reinforce; attached devices record the animal's rate of bar pressing or key pecking  
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show an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior  
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discriminative stimulus   show
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show in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows  
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positive reinforcement   show
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negative reinforcement   show
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primary reinforce   show
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show a stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforce; also known as a secondary reinforce  
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continuous reinforcement   show
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partial (intermittent) reinforcement   show
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fixed-ratio schedule   show
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show in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses  
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fixed interval schedule   show
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variable interval schedule   show
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punishment   show
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cognitive map   show
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show learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it  
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show a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem  
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intrinsic motivation   show
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extrinsic motivation   show
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observational learning   show
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modeling   show
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show frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain's mirroring of another's actions may enable imitation and empath  
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show positive, constructive, helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior  
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show subject in John Watson's experiment, proved classical conditioning principles, especially the generalization of fear  
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Albert Bandura   show
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show Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation, they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.  
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show Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849  
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show graduate student of Watson and co-researcher for the famous Little Albert demonstration of classically conditioned emotion  
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show researcher known for work on learned helplessness and learned optimism as well as positive psychology  
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show pioneer of operant conditioning; believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. He is famous for use of his operant conditioning apparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pigeons and rats.  
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Edward Thorndike   show
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John Watson   show
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biofeedback   show
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observational learning   show
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aversion theory   show
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