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| connection or linkage between the representations of two events (two stimuli or a stimulus and a response) so that the occurrence of one of the events activates the representation of the other |
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| declarative or episodic learning |
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| Learning about a specific event or fact, usually accessible to consciousness |
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| The view of behavior according to which actions can be separated into two categories: voluntary behavior controlled by the mind, and involuntary behavior controlled by reflex mechanisms |
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| A philosophy according to which all ideas in the mind arise from experience |
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| A temporary decrease in behavior caused by repeated or excessive use of the muscles involved in the behavior |
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| The philosophy proposed by Hobbes according to which the actions of organisms are determined entirely by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. |
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| An enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with similar stimuli and responses. |
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| A change in behavior caused by physical or physiological development of the organism in the absence of experience with particular environmental events. |
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| A philosophy according to which human beings are born with innate ideas. |
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| The philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system. |
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| A three-letter combination (two consonants separated by a vowel) that has no meaning. |
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| An organism’s activities at a particular time |
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| Learning ways of doing things rather than learning about specific events. Procedural learning is typically not governed by conscious controlled processes. |
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| A mechanism that enables a specific environmental event to elicit a specific response |
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