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Studying Psychology2
A lot of terms from Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Learning | a relatively lasting change in behavior that is the result of experience |
| Extinction | the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing |
| Taste Aversion | A condition where eating a substance is followed by illness |
| Learning | theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied |
| Stimulus generalization | the tendency for the conditioned stimulus to evoke similar responses after the response has been conditioned |
| Negative reinforcement | The removal of something unpleasant after doing something |
| Positive Reinforcement | The addition of something pleasant after doing something |
| Punishment | applying a stimulus after a behavior in order to reduce likelihood that the behavior will occur again in the future |
| Secondary reinforcement | Reinforcing a behavior in the liklihood that it will occur again |
| Primary reinforcement | Already learned, natural reaction |
| Reinforcement | refer to anything that increases the likelihood that a response will occur |
| Operant conditioning | a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior |
| Aversive stimuli | things you don't want in the liklihood that a behavior will not occur |
| Behavior modification | Taking away something unwanted in the liklihood that the behavior will reoccur |
| Continuous reinforcement | Giving reward for wanted behavior |
| Fixed-ratio | where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses |
| Fixed-interval | where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed |
| variable-ratio | reinforcement where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses |
| Variable-interval | where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed |
| Shaping | gradually molding or training an organism to perform a specific response (behavior) by reinforcing any responses that are similar to the desired respon |
| Partial reinforcement | reinforcing an organism only sometimes and not everytime the desired behavior occurs |
| Observation reinforcement | acquiring information by observing others |
| Cognitive map | mental representation of the layout of one's environment |
| learned helplessness | behavior in which something reacts as something cannot be changed |
| Punishment by application | Presenting something unwated in liklihood behavior will not occur |
| Punishment by removal | Taking something wanted away in liklihood behavior will not return |
| Classical conditioning | technique used in behavioral training |
| Bobo Doll | Children learn aggression through watching others |
| Sensation | the neural synaptic firing of our receptors and our brain's interpretation of these firings |
| Sensory Adaption | reduced sensitivity to stimulation that results from repeated presentations of that stimulation |
| Perception | our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli |
| Parts of the neuron | Dendrites, Axon, Axon terminal, Myelin sheath |
| Absolute threshold | the smallest detectable level of a stimulus |
| Vestibular balance | your sense of balance |
| Gestalt principles | theories that attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied |
| Weber's Law | theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied |
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