Psychology Chapter on Learning and Conditioning

A stimulus that elicits a response without any prior learning.

<p>A response that does not have to be learned, such as a reflex.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that yields a response only after learning has occurred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A response that was not previously associated with the unconditioned stimulus, but has become associated with it due to the learning process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The initial stage in classical conditioning where an association between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus takes place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the unconditioned stimulus does not follow the conditioned stimulus, resulting in the diminishing of the conditioned response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

<p>A process by which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior towards the desired target behavior through successive approximations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

<p>A stimulus that follows a behavior and makes the behavior more (or less) likely.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A discriminative stimulus that signals when a particular response is likely to be followed by a certain type of consequence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcers that are not inherently related to the action being reinforced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcers that are inherently related to the action being reinforced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A kind of partial reinforcement schedule which reinforces behavior after a set number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A kind of partial reinforcement schedule that provides reinforcers after an unpredictable number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A kind of partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces the first response after a fixed time period.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A kind of partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces the first response after varying time intervals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A learning method in which we observe and imitate others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The schedules in which responses are sometimes reinforced and sometimes not.</p> Signup and view all the answers