A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

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The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors
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Learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning)
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Any event or situation that evokes a response
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The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language
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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
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Explored classical conditioning - Dog experiment
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The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with 1 but not 2
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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning
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Unconditioned Response (UR)
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In classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occuring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (US) (such as food in the mouth)
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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response (UR)
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Conditioned Response (CR)
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In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response (CR)
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In classical conditioning, the initial stange, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response
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The diminshing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced
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The reapparance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
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The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
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In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus
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"Little Albert" experiement; Lound noise sounded when a white rat was presented. Example of classical conditioning.
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type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
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Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
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In operant conditioning research, a chamber (also known as a Skinner box) containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer; attached devices record the animal's rate of bar pressing or key pecking
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In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows
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An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
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Designed the operant chamber
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Increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response
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Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli. A negative reinforcer is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response. (not punishment)
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An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need
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A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer; also known as a secondary reinforcer
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Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs
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A pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced
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Partial (intermittent) Reinforcement
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Reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response, but much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedue that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed
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Variable-Interval Schedule
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In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals
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An event that tends to decrease the behavior it follows
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Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus
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Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences
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A mental representation of the layout of one's environment. For example, after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it

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Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
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A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake
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A desire to perform a behavior to recieve promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
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Learning by observing others
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The process of observing an imitating a specific behavior
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Bobo doll - observational learning and modeling
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Frontal lobe neurons that some scientists believe fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. The brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation and empathy
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Positive, constructive, helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior

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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.