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AP Psych chapter 10

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Who was Mary Coover Jones?   "Mother of behavior therapy" Formed ways to treat phobias.  
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Phobias   Irrational fears and anxiety's  
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Desensitization Therapy   Therapy designed to reduce sensitivity to a feared stimulus.  
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Who was Joseph Wolpe?   He expanded the idea of relearning a response to include reciprocal inhibition.  
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Reciprocal Inhibition   when 2 opposing muscles work in sync  
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Systematic desensitization   A process that trains individuals with phobias with relaxation techniques and then exposes them to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli.  
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Biofeedback   monitors heart rate, blood pressure  
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Latent learning   When someone learns something but doesn't show the behavior right away  
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Edward Tolman   Attempted to teach rats to run a maze  
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Cognitive map   allow organisms to acquire, store, and recall information.  
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Who is Resdora?   he demonstrated that cognition is at work within classical conditioning.  
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Contingency theory   for learning to take place, a stimulus must provide a organism with a reliable signal.  
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Instinctive drift   reversion to a natural behavior  
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Abstract learning   understanding qualities such as love, hate, honesty  
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Insight learning   A sudden realization that "just came to you"  
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Premack principle   A person will perform a less desirable activity in order to perform the more desirable activity as a consequence  
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Learned helplessness   a mental state in which an organism continues to feel an unpleasant stimulus  
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Problem focused coping   we attempt to take control of a situation by either changing our behavior or our situation.  
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Emotion focused coping   seeking out support from others  
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Self-control   the ability to delay the satisfaction of immediate desires  
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Who discovered the social learning theory?   Albert Bandura  
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Social learning theory   people learn behaviors through watching and mimicking others  
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Modeling behavior   Showing how something is done.  
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Vicarious learning   learning by watching someone else's actions  
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Social cognitive   part of who people are is caused by observing other peoples behaviors  
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Learning   a relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior  
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Associative learning   a learning mode in which ideas and experiences are mentally linked  
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Classical conditioning   learning process that occurs when 2 stimuli are repeatedly paired  
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Behaviorism   the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes  
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Unconditioned response   behavior that is reflexive  
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Unconditioned stimulus   a stimuli that automatically triggers a natural response  
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Conditioned response   the learned response to previously neutral stimuli  
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Conditioned stimuli   an irrelevant stimulus is associated with an unconditioned stimulus. Triggering a conditioned response.  
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Acquisition   The formation of a learned association  
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Generalization   a response to another stimuli that is similar to the conditioned response  
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Chaining   process used to combine learned behaviors  
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Shaping   a series of reinforcements to crate more complex behavior  
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Contiguity   the closeness in time between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus  
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Avoidance behavior   specific behaviors people use to ensure they are not involved in a situation  
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Superstitious behaviors   behavior that is accidentally reinforced  
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parietal reinforcement   Not reinforcing a response every time  
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Primary reinforcement   satisfies biological needs  
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