Psy of Learning Word Scramble

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Psy of Learning

Chapter 7- PAVLOV

Question	Answer
Unconditioned Stimulus US	a stimulus that causes a natural and automatic response from the organism (reinforcer)
Unconditioned Response UR	natural and automatic response that is elicited when an unconditioned stimulus is presented to the organism
Conditioned Stimulus CS	a stimulus that before conditioning does not cause an organism to respond in any particular way
Conditioned response CR	also called the Conditioned Reflex. a response that is made to a stimulus not originally associated with hat response. (salvation to a ring of a bell)
Extinction	when the conditioned stimulus is presented to the organism and is not followed by a response
Spontaneous recovery	Following a delay after extinction, the CS again elicits conditioned responses.
Secondary Reinforcer
Primary Reinforcer	Unconditioned Stimulus
Higher-Order Conditioning	Second Order Conditioning, Third Order Conditioning
Generalization	The tendency for an organism to respond not only to the specific stimulus it was trained on but also to related stimuli.
Discrimination	Learning to respond to one stimulus but not to other stimuli, although they may be related to the first.
Backward Conditioning	The CS is presented to the organism after the US is presented.
Information Value	The ability of a stimulus to act as a signal to an organism that a significant event is about to occur.
Excitation	An increase in brain activity. (positive stimulus)
Inhibition	A decrease in brain activity. (Negative Stimulus)
Dynamic Stereotype	Mapping of the events consistently occurring in the environment.
Irradiation of Excitation	the tendency of excitation or inhibition in the specific area of the brain to spill over into neighboring brain regions.
Cortical Mosaic	The patter of excitation and inhibition that constitutes the activity of the cortex at any given moment.
Concentration	Excitation and inhibition can be focused or restrict to certain parts of the brain
Excitatory Conditioning	Classical conditioning observed when a CS-US pairing produces a response
Conditioned Inhibition	Instrumental/Operant: is a learned response of not responding. Classical: CS-US pairing suppresses a response
External Inhibition	The disruptive effect that occurs when a novel stimulus is presented along with an already established CS
Disinhibition
Orienting Reflex
First Signal System
Second Signal System
Semantic Generalization
Renewal Effect
Reinstatement
Overshadowing
Blocking
Conditioned Emotional Response CER
Condition Suppression
Forward Conditioning
Truly Random Control Group
Learned Helplessness
latent inhibition Effect
Learned Irrelevance
Super Conditioning	Describes the facilitation of condition that occurs when an established conditioned inhibitor (cs-) is subsequently paired with the US
Garcia Effect	observation that animals form strong taste aversions easily and contradiction of classical conditioning
John. B Watson	Founder of the school of Behaviorism. According to Watson, the only reliable, observable, and measurable subject matter available to psychologist is behavior, and therefore behavior is all that psychologist should study. Human behavior was learned.
Behaviorism	A school of psychology, founded by Watson, that completely rejected the study of consciousness.
Counter Conditioning	The technique used to eliminate undesirable behavior where by a CS is paired with a US other than the one that originally reinforced the undesirable behavior.
Flooding	Using the technique of flooding the organism is forced to experience feared CS long enough to learn that aversive experience will not follow, thus creating the conditions necessary for extinction
Systematic Desensitization	Therapeutic technique developed by Wolpe whereby a phobia is extinguished by having a client approached the feared experience one small step at a time while relaxing after each step.
Anxiety Hierarchy	The initial stage of Wolpe's therapeutic technique of systematic desensitization. Take a series of related anxiety experiences and ordering them from the experience that causes the greatest amount of anxiety to the least amount.

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Alysia DeJesus on 2012-02-04