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Psychology
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09/29/2008

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Escape Conditioning
Definition
Organism learns a response to terminate an aversive stimulus
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Avoidance Conditioning
Definition
Organism learns a response to avoid an aversive stimulus
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Instinctive Drift
Definition
the tendency for a conditioned response to drift back to instinctive behavior
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Stimulus Response [SR] Psychology
Definition
Learning involves the relatively automatic formation of bonds between stimuli and responses
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Insight
Definition
The sudden perception of a useful relationship that helps to solve a problem
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Cognitive Map
Definition
Mental representation of the spatial layout
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Awareness
Definition
You have to know why you're being praised or punished to learn how to respond to that behavior
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Latent Learning
Definition
learning that occurs but isn't demonstrated until later, when there is an incentive to perform
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Observational Learning (aka modeling)
Definition
the learning that occurs by observing the behavior of a model
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Social-Cognitive Theory
Social-Learning Theory
Definition
Emphasizes that people learn by observing the behavior of models and acquiring the belief that they can produce behaviors to influence events in their lives
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Modeling Process (what four steps?)
Definition
Attention, Retention, Reproduction, Motivation
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Attention
Definition
we must pay attention to the model's behavior
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Retention
Definition
we must retain that information in memory so that it can be recalled when needed
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Reproduction
Definition
we must be physically capable of reproducing the behavior
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Motivation
Definition
We must be motivated to display the behavior
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