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05 Psychology and Your Life Text Book - Chapter 5
Chapter 5 - Learning
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01/30/2014

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A permanent change in behavior that is acquired and altered through experience.

 

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1) Learning - pg. 168
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A type of learning that elicits a response after being paired with a response.

 

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2) Classical Conditioning - pg. 169
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Response to a conditioned stimulus.

 

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3) Conditioned response - pg. 170
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Occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.

 

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4) Extinction - pg. 172
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Is learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on if itis favorable on unfavorable.

 

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5) Operant Conditioning - pg. 176
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Is a process by which a stimulus increases the probability that the proceeding behavior   will be repeated.

 

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6) Reinforcement - pg. 177
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A stimulus that decreases the probability that a prior behavior will occur.

 

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7) Punishment - pg. 178
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The process of teaching a complex behavior by rewarding closer and closer to the approximations of the desired behavior.

 

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8) Shaping - pg. 183

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A technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidences of unwanted ones.

 

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9) Behavior modification - pg. 185
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Occurs without reinforcing.

 

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10) Latent learning - pg. 190
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Watching the behavior of another person or model.

 

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11) Observable learning - pg. 191
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