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Unit 6 mod 26
classic conditioning vocab quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| process of acquiring new information | learning |
| decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to stimuli | habituation |
| learning that events occur together, cause and effect | associative learning |
| any event or situation that evokes a response | stimulus |
| behavior that is an automatic response to a stimuli | respondent behavior |
| acquisition of mental information by observing or through language | cognitive learning |
| conditioning that links two or more stimuli , one stimuli causes anticipation for the other one | classical conditioning |
| the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes | behaviorism |
| a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning | neutral stimulus |
| unlearned naturally occurring response to a stimuli | unconditioned response |
| a stimuli that is unconditioned and naturally triggers a response | unconditioned stimulus |
| learned response to a previously neutral stimuli | conditioned response |
| an originally neutral stimuli that was conditioned to trigger a response | conditioned stimulus |
| initial learning | acquisition |
| the diminishing of a conditioned response | extinction |
| the reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response | spontaneous recovery |
| the learned ability to distinguish the difference between conditioned stimuli and similar stimuli | discrimination |
| the tendency to have a similar response to similar stimuli after being conditioned | generalization |
| behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences | operant behavior |