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Psychology Quiz 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience. | Learning |
| A theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of such mental activity as thinking, wishing, and hoping. | Behaviorism |
| Learning that occurs when we make a connection, or an association, between two events. | Associative Learning |
| Learning that occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior. | Observational Learning |
| Learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response. | Classical Conditioning |
| A stimulus that produces a response without prior learning | Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) |
| An unlearned reaction that is automatically elicted by the unconditioned stimulus | Uncondiitioned Response (UCR) |
| A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicts a conditioned response after being paired wiht the unconditioned stimulus | Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
| The learned response to the conditioned stimulus that occurs after conditioned stimulus- Unconditioned stimulus pairing | Conditioned Response (CR) |
| The initial learning of the connection between the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimuls when these two stimuli are paired | Acquistion |
| The tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a response that is similar to the conditioned response | Generalization (in classical conditioning) |
| The process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others. | Discrimination ( in classical conditioning) |