AP Psychology Unit 6 Vocabulary

A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.

An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

Learning that certain events occur together.

<p>A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that unconditionally triggers a response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An originally irrelevant stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response after association with an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The diminishing of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, while those followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer approximations of the desired behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli, such as food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli, such as shock.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An innately reinforcing stimulus that satisfies a biological need.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcing a response only part of the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning by observing others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positive, constructive, helpful behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers