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Unit 4 Psych
Learning
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Types of Conditioning | Classical Operant Observational |
| Learning | acquiring new information or behavior |
| Neutral Stimulus | Original Irrelevent Stimulus |
| Unconditioned Stimulus | naturally triggers response |
| Unconditioned Response | naturally occurring response to a unconditioned stimulus |
| Conditioned Stimulus | originally irrelevant stimulus that after association triggers a response |
| Conditioned Response | learned response to a conditioned stimulus |
| Acquisiton | Initial stage of learning |
| Extinction | The conditioned response goes away |
| Spontaneous Recovery | CR has been conditioned, extinguished and reappeared |
| Generalization | to have conditioned responses triggered by related stimuli |
| Discrimination | learned ability to only respond to a specific stimuli, prevents generalization |
| Little Albert Experiment | kid likes animals, turned into being scared when rat would run away because they banged a loud bar when he reached for rat(john watkins) |
| Classical Conditioning | stimuli+response |
| Operant Conditioning | behavior+something happens+strengthened |