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ch.12

Psy of Learning Ch. 12

TermDefinition
activity anorexia An abnormally high level of activity and low level of food intake generated by exposure to a restricted schedule of feeding
adjunctive behavior An excessive pattern of behavior that emerges as a byproduct of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement for some other behavior
Autoshaping A type of sign tracking in which a pigeon comes to automatically peck at a response key because the key light has been associated with the response-independent delivery of food
behavior systems theory A theory proposing that an animal’s behavior is organized into certain systems or categories (such as feeding, mating, and avoiding predators), with each category containing a set of relevant responses that can become activated in certain situations
CS-US relevance An innate tendency to easily associate certain types of stimuli with each other
displacement activity An apparently irrelevant activity sometimes displayed by animals when confronted by conflict or thwarted from attaining a goal.
preparedness An innate tendency for an organism to more easily learn certain types of behaviors or to associate certain types of events with each other.
species specific defense reaction (pic) innate response to an aversive stimulation
instinctive drift (pic) genetically based, fixed action pattern gradually emerging and displacing a behavior being operantly conditioned
sign tracking (pic) elicited behavior where an organism approaches a stimulus alerting to the presentation of an appetitive event
taste aversion conditioning A form of classical conditioning in which a food item that has been paired with gastrointestinal illness becomes a conditioned aversive stimulus.
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