Psychology: Classical and Operant Conditioning

A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.

The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus in classical conditioning.

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

<p>A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.</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>An innately satisfying stimulus that satisfies a biological need.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A neutral stimulus that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>A stimulus that increases the future probability of a response upon which its presentation is contingent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An event whose reduction or termination increases the likelihood that ongoing behavior will recur.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>An operant conditioning principle in which only some of the responses made are followed by reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement given immediately after the desired behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reward that does not immediately follow an action.</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>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>The presumed hereditary readiness of humans to learn certain skills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning that certain events occur together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of learning influenced by the observation of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stimulus that weakens a response when it is presented after the response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A response behavior is followed by the removal of a stimulus, decreasing future responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences.</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>Self-replicating ideas, fashions, and innovations passed from person to person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Actions intended to benefit others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A learned avoidance of a particular food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The initial learning of the response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decrease in conditioned response without the conditioned stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learned ability to distinguish between the conditioned stimulus and other stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reappearance of the conditioned response after some time period.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>A behaviorist who elaborated on E.L. Thorndike's Law of Effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He established the Law of Effect in psychology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement provided every time the behavior occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement provided only some of the time a behavior occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement delivered after a set number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement delivered after an unpredictable number of responses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement delivered after a fixed amount of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcement delivered after an unpredictable amount of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attempts to decrease behavior by introducing an unpleasant stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs when an external incentive decreases a person's intrinsic motivation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imitating positive behaviors or role modeling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imitating negative behaviors, as demonstrated in the Bobo doll experiment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conducted the Bobo doll experiment observing children's behavior after watching adults act aggressively.</p> Signup and view all the answers