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Psychology
Chapter 6 Sec 1-4 Quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar to each other | Discrimination |
| A type of learning that involves stimulus-response connections | Conditioning |
| The act of responding in the same ways to stimuli that seem to be similar | Generalization |
| A learned avoidance of a particular food | Taste aversion |
| The loss of a stimulus’s ability to bring about a conditioned response | Extinction |
| An automatic response to a stimulus | Unconditioned response |
| A simple form of learning in which one stimulus calls forth a response normally generated by a different stimulus | Classical conditioning |
| A learned response to a stimulus that was previously neutral | Conditioned response |
| A stimulus that causes a response that is not learned | Unconditioned stimulus |
| A stimulus that causes a learned response | Conditioned stimulus |
| Process by which a stimulus increases the chances that a behavior will occur again | Reinforcement |
| Method of teaching complex behaviors in which one first reinforces small steps | Shaping |
| The relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two things | Ration |
| Stimuli that increase the frequency of a behavior that they follow | Positive reinforcers |
| Method of learning in which each step of a sequence leads to another step until the final action is achieved | Chaining |
| The acquiring of knowledge by observing and imitating other people | Observational learning |
| Learning that remains hidden until it is needed | Latent |
| System in which people are paid to act correctly by earning rewards, such as points that can be cashed in for treats or privileges | Token economies |
| Form of observational learning in which people observe behavior and can later reproduce it | Modeling |
| Experienced indirectly through the experience of another person | Vicarious reinforcement |
| Approach to active learning that includes six steps to help students absorb information | PQ4R Method |
| An effort to learn a great deal of information all at once | Massed learning |
| Effort to get a general picture of the material covered in a section of text before reading it | Preview |
| The process of studying something regularly so the learning is spread over several days or weeks | Distributed learning |
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