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Learning Exam 1 Defs

Learning Exam 1 Definitions

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Control Systems Theory A branch of science that analyzes goal-directed behaviors in both living creatures and inanimate objects.
Comparator In CST, a device that compares its goal state (reference input) with the current situation (actual input) and signals that action is necessary if the two are not equal.
Learning A more or less permanent change in behavior resulting from personal experiences in the environment.
Ethologist A scientist that studies how animals behave in their natural environment.
Associationists Philosophers who developed early theories about how people learn to associate separate thoughts or ideas as a result of their experiences.
Nativism The hypothesis that some ideas are innate (inborn) and do not depend on an individual's past experience.
Independent Variable In scientific research, a variable that the experimenter manipulates to determine how this affects the dependent variable.
Dependent Variable In psychological research, the behavior of a subject that is measured by the experimenter to see how it is affected by changes in the independent variable.
Intervening Variable A theoretical concept that cannot be observed directly, but is used in science to predict the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
Contiguity One of Aristotle's principles of association, which states that two ideas will be associated if they tend to occur together in space or time.
Similarity One of Aristotle's principles of association, which states that the thought of one concept often leads to the thought of similar concepts.
Contrast One of Aristotle's principles of association, which states that the thought of one concept often leads to the thought of the opposite concept.
Long-Term Potentiation An increase in the strengths of the connections between neurons caused by electrical stimulation, which can last for weeks or months.
Arborization The branching of dendrites of neurons, a process that occurs especially rapidly before birth and during the first year of an child's life.
Neurogenesis The growth of new neurons.
Reflex An innate movement that can be reliably elicited by presenting the appropriate stimulus.
Tropism An innate movement of a creature's entire body in response to specific stimulus. The 2 major categories are kineses and taxes.
Kinesis A tropism in which the direction of the movement is random in relation to the stimulus.
Taxis A tropism in which the eliciting stimulus determines the direction of the creature's movement.
Fixed Action Pattern An innate sequence of behaviors that is elicited by a specific stimulus and, once started, continues to its end whether or not the behaviors are appropriate in the current situation.
Unconditioned Stimulus In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally elicits a specific response (an unconditioned response)
Unconditioned Response In classical conditioning, an innate response that is elicited by the unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus An initially neutral stimulus that develops the capacity to elicit a conditioned response after it is paired with an unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned Response The response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus after classical conditioning has taken place
Acquisition Phase The period in the learning process when an individual is learning a new behavior.
Extinction In classical conditioning, presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus; responding decreases and eventually disappears.
Spontaneous Recovery In classical or operant conditioning, the reappearance of a response that has undergone extinction after a passage of time without further conditioning trials.
Generalization The transfer of a learned response from one stimulus to another, similar stimulus.
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