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Chapter 6
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Undergraduate 1
10/02/2006

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Classical Conditioning
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Preparing a path for learning, same response, change stimulus, UCS to CS learning, with a paired stimulus.
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Operant Conditioning
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Individual is in control of the way they act. Learns to associate.
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Ivan Pavlor
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Doing research on salivary glands. Reflex and action of dog. Food- Saliva, Bell- Saliva. Sufficient pairing between food and bell association.
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Natural Stimulus
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Naturally paired with response. Unconditional Stimulus.
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Learned Stimulus
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Conditional Stimulus, "paired stimulus"
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B.F Skinner
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Operant Conditioning with skinner boxes and bird inside pushing buttons. Operant chamber to deliver reinforcers and punishers contingent on an animal's behavior.
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Threshold
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First step stone it is a upper limit and lower limit for learning anything.
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Aquisition
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Initial gathering or acquiring for learning. Examples: visual, auditory, tactile learners.
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Professor Sternberg
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Tests that tells your learning style. Taught visual learners a different way, auditory, and tactile with different types of lectures.
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Forgetting
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With no rehearsal or practice
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Generalization
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means by which learner allows other stimuli which are similar to original stimulus to bring out the response.
Example: dog would allow the sound of piano.
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Discriminability
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How much we can distinguish between two stimuli.
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Spontaneous Recovery
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Allows us to regain our past learning quickly.
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Learning
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A lasting change in behavior or mental processes that results from experience.
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Habituation
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Learning not to respond to the repeated presentation of a stimulus.
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Mere exposure effect
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A learned preference for stimuli to which you have been previously exposed.
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Behavioral Learning
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Forms of learning, such as classical and operant conditioning, that can be described in terms of stimuli and responses.
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Neutral Stimulus
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any stimulus that produces no conditional response prior to learning.
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Unconditional Stimulus (UCS)
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in classical conditioning, the stimulus that elicits an unconditional response.
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Unconditional Response (UCR)
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in classical conditioning, the response elicited by an unconditional stimulus without prior learning.
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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in classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit the conditioned response.
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Conditioned response (CR)
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in classical conditioning,a previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit the unconditional stimulus.
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Stimulus Generalization
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the extension of learned response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.
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Stimulus Discrimination
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A change in responses to one stimulus but not to a stimuli that are similar.
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Experimental Neurosis
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a pattern demanding discrimination learning task, typically one that involves aversive stimuli.
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Operant
Definition
An observable voluntary behavior that an organism emits to operate or have an effect on in the environment.
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Reinforcer
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a condition (involving either the presentation or removal of a stimulus) that occurs after a response and strengthens that response.)
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Reinforcement Contingencies
Definition
Relationships between a response and the changes in stimulation that follow the response.
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Continuous Reinforcement
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A type of reinforcement schedule by which all correct responses are reinforced.
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Intermittent Reinforcement
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A type of reinforcement schedule by which some, but not all, correct responses are reinforced; also partial reinforcement.
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Extinction
Definition
when learning ability is gone or weakened.
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Schedules of Reinforcement
Definition
programs specifying the frequency and timing reinforcement.
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Ratio Schedule
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A program by which reinforcement depends on the number of correct responses.
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Interval Schedule
Definition
program depended on the time interval elapsed since the last reinforcement.
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Fixed Ratio(FR)
Definition
unvarying number of responses.
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Varible Ratio (VR)
Definition
reponses required vary from trial to trial.
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Fixed interval (FI)
Definition
reinforcement is contingent upon a certain, fixed time period.
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Premack principle
Definition
developed by David Premack that a more preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less preferred activity.
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Punishment
Definition
Positive: the application of an aversive stimulus after a response.
Negative: the removal of an attractive stimulus after a response.
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Token Economy
Definition
individuals are rewarded with tokens to be redeemed as priviledges.
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Insight Learning
Definition
problem solving occurs by means of a sudden reorganization of perceptions
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Cognitive Map
Definition
A mental representation of physical space.
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Long-term potentiation
Definition
process involving physical changes that strengthen the synapses in groups of nerve cells, which is believed to be the neural basis of learning.
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