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LEARNING. Vocab, Concepts

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habituation   decline in response to stimulus once the stimulus has become familiar  
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dishabituation   increase in responsiveness when something novel is presented, following a series of something familiar  
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Classical Conditioning   form of learning, one stimulus is /paired/ with another so that the organism learns a /relationship/ between the stimuli  
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unconditioned stimulus (US) [CLASSICAL CONDITIONING]   stimulus that reliably triggers a particular response (UR) without prior training e.g. food in animal's mouth  
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unconditioned response (UR) [CLASSICAL CONDITIONING]   response elicited by unconditioned stimulus without prior training e.g. salivation due to food  
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conditioned stimulus (CS) [CLASSICAL CONDITIONING]   initially neutral stimulus, that comes to elicit a new response (CR) due to pairings with the US e.g. bell, after conditioning, signals food  
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conditioned response (CR) [CLASSICAL CONDITIONING]   response elicited by initially neutral stimulus CS, after it has been repeatedly paired with an US e.g. salivation due to ringing of bell  
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second-order conditioning [CLASSICAL]   form of learning where: 1) neutral stimulus is first made meaningful through classical conditioning 2) that stimulus (now CS) is paired with new, neutral stimulus, until the 2nd stimulus also elicits conditioned response  
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extinction   weakening of a learned response that is produced if a CS is now repeatedly presented without the US  
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spontaneous recovery   reappearance of an extinguished response after a period in which no further conditioning trials have been presented (CS elicits CR again)  
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stimulus generalization   tendency for stimuli similar to those used during learning to elicit a reaction similar to the learned response  
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discrimination   aspect of learning, organism learns to respond differently to stimuli that have been associated with a US (or reinforcement), and stimuli that have not e.g. Loud horn (US) with red light (CS+) vs. no horn (no US) with orange light (CS-)  
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inhibitor   stimulus signaling that an event is not coming, which elicits a response opposite to the one that the event usually elicits  
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contiguity   CS and US arrive close to each other in time  
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contingency   CS provides info about US's arrival, and is the key to classical conditioning  
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blocking effect   result showing that an animal learns nothing about a stimulus if the stimulus provides no new information  
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compensatory response   a response (CR) that offsets the effects of the upcoming US  
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instrumental conditioning   form of learning, participant receives a reinforcer only after performing the desired response, and therby learns a relationship between the response and the reinforcer  
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law of effect [INSTRUMENTAL]   Thorndike's theory that a response followed by a reward will be strengthened, whereas a response followed by no reward (or by punishment) will be weakened  
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operant [INSTRUMENTAL]   In Skinner's system, an instrumental response that is defined by its effect (the way it operates) on the environment  
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reinforcer [INSTRUMENTAL]   a stimulus delivered after a response that makes the response more likely in the future  
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shaping [INSTRUMENTAL]   process of eliciting a desired response by rewarding behaviors that are increasingly similar to that response  
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behavioral contrast   response pattern, in which an organism evaluates a reward relative to other available rewards or those that have been available recently  
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partial reinforcement   learning condition, in which only some of the organism's responses are reinforced  
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schedule of reinforcement   rules about how often and under what conditions a response will be reinforced  
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ratio schedule   pattern of delivering reinforcements only after a certain number of responses  
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interval schedule   pattern of delivering reinforcements only after a certain amount of time has passed  
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latent learning   learning that occurs without a corresponding change in behavior  
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Edward C Tolman   advocate for the idea that learning involves a change in knowledge rather than a change in behavior (latent learning)  
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learned helplessness   condition of passivity, created by exposure to inescapable aversive events. Condition inhibits/prevents learning in later situations in which escape or avoidance is possible  
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observational learning   process of watching how /others/ behave and learning from their example  
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vicarious conditioning   form of learning, where the learner acquires a conditioned response merely by observing another participant being conditioned  
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mirror neurons   neurons that fire whenever an animal performs an action (stretching out its arm or reaching toward a target), and also whenever the animal /watches/ another performing the same action  
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taste aversion learning   form of learning, an organism learns to avoid a taste after just one pairing of that taste with illness (e.g. distaste of vodka because of overindulgence)  
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prepared learning   form of learning, occurs without extensive training because of an evolved predisposition to the behavior (e.g. humans naturally associate aversive outcomes with snakes)  
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presynaptic facilitation   documented in studies of APYLSIA, process that underlies many kinds of learning, occurs when learning results in an increased release of neurotransmitter into the synapse  
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long-term potentiation (LTP)   long-lasting increase in a neuron's response to specific inputs, caused by repeated stimulation  
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