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PSYC4
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| relative permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience | learning |
| learning requires | memory |
| saliva on digestion. unable to salivate cannot eat. example of | classical conditioning |
| acquistition | combine the neutral stimulus then the unconditioned simulus |
| generalization | responding to several similar stimuli in the same way |
| discrimination | responding to specific stimuli and not to others |
| extiniction | weakening the conditioned response. spotaneous recovery |
| consequences of doing something affect whether or not you will do it again. | operant conditioning |
| a form of learning in which the consequences of behavior change the probability of the behaviors occurance | instramental learning |
| Throndikes law of effect | cats in puzzle boxes. to get food, cat has to learn to do something |
| behaviors followed by desirable outcome will be streghened (they will happen again); behaviors followed by undesirable outcomes are weakened( will not happen again). | Law of Effect |
| B.F skinner does research on | what you do. you act like a jerk, you are a jerk. |
| A process; consequence | reinforcement |
| anything that increases or strengthens the behavior it follows | reinforcer |
| you give something and the behvior happens again (something added) | + reinforcement |
| you take something away so behavior happens again | - reinforcement |
| unlearned, innately satisfying | primary reinforcement |
| learned, aquires rewarding value | secondary reinforcement |
| responding to simuli based on whether or not it iwll be rewarding | discriminate |
| being less likely to do something when no longer rewarded | extinction |
| a consequence that decreases the likelihood a behavior will reoccur | punishment |
| rewarding successive aprox. to a desired behavior | shaping |
| a way to teach complex behaviors by teaching small ______ ________ | component behaviors |
| behavior modificiation | using operant conditioning to change behavior |
| learing that occurs when a person sees and imitates behavior | observation learning |
| imitate to follow behavior or opposite | Albert Bandura |
| ______ ______ also play a role in learning | cognative processes |
| much behavior is | goal directed |
| we do certain things based on what we expect to happen | expectancy |
| form of learning that occurs when an organism develops a sudden soultion or undering of the problems | insight. YOU GET IT! |
| avg. life expectancy 1900 | 45 years old |
| responce to circumstances and events that treaten us and challange our coping ability | stress |
| cirucmstance or event | stressor |
| fight or flight | walter cannon |
| fight or flight; | changes the body goes through when it experiences sudden stress |
| how people select, interpret, remember and use social info | social thinking |
| social thinking is influenced by | expectations, memory, attitudes |
| the study of how people thinkg about influence, and related to other people. (how ind. acts in a group) | social psychology |
| our idea about why people do what they do | attribution |