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Psychologyvocab quiz
for my psychology class
Question | Answer |
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Acquisition | in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response. |
Associative learning | learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences. |
Behaviorism | The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. |
Classical conditioning | a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events |
Conditioned response | in classical conditioning, the learning response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus |
Conditioned stimulus | in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response. |
extinction | the diminishing 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. |
learning | a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience |
spontaneous recovery | the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response. |
stimulus discrimination | the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and a stimuli that does not signal and unconditioned stimulus. |
stimulus generalization | a tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for a stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses. |
unconditioned response | the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is in the mouth. |
unconditioned stimulus | a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers a response |