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| A relativily permanant change in behavior or the potential to make a respnse that occurs as a result of expierence |
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| Learning that occurs when two stimuli a conditioned stimulus (originally NS) and a unconditioned stimulus are paired and become associated with each other |
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| Irrational fear of an activity, object, or situation that is out of proportion to the actual danger posed |
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| A general term for the reaction of elmination of behaviors in clasical conditioning extension occurs when repeated presentation of the CS alone leads to a reduction in the strength of the CR |
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| Reapperance of an extinguished CR after the passage of time |
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| occurence of responses to stimuli that are similar to a CS |
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| occurance of responses only to a specific CS |
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| event or stimulus that increases the frequency of the response that it follows |
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| event or stimuli presented after the target response that increases the likelyhood that this response will happen again |
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| event or stimulus reinforced after the target response, therby increasing the liklyhood that the response will occur again |
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| Stimulus that has inate reinforcing properties |
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| A form of operant conditioning in which a desired response is taught by reinforcement of successive responses that more closely resemble the target response |
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| Reinforcemnet that follows every target response |
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| Reinforcemnet that follows every target response |
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| Reinforcemnet that follows every target response |
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| Intermittent Reinforcement |
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| Reinforcement that follows every target response |
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| Reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is based on the number of responses; number maybe set (fixed ratio) or may vary from one reinforcement to the next |
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| based on the passage of time in which a single-response at the end of the designated interval is reinforced, intervals may vary from one reinforcement to the next |
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| Stimulus that produces a decrease in responding; may take the form of presentation of a stimulus or termination of a stimulus |
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| How can classical conditioning explain our behavior in certain situations? |
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| How did B.F. Skinner use his "skinner box" and the concept of shaping to train animals? |
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| What are the benefits and problems associated with the behavior modification startagies of "spanking" and "timeout"? |
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