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Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 08 Vocabulary

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TERM
DEFINITION
show A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.  
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show Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning).  
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CLASSICAL CONDITIONING   show
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show The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).  
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UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE (UCR)   show
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UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS (UCS)   show
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show In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS).  
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show In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS), comes to trigger a conditioned response.  
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ACQUISITION   show
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EXTINCTION   show
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show The reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response.  
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show The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.  
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DISCRIMINATION   show
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OPERANT CONDITIONING   show
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show Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus; Skinner's term for behavior learned through classical conditioning.  
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show Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.  
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LAW OF EFFECT   show
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OPERANT CHAMBER (SKINNER BOX)   show
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SHAPING   show
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show In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.  
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PRIMARY REINFORCER   show
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CONDITIONED REINFORCER   show
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show Reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.  
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show Reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous reinforcement.  
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show In operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses.  
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VARIABLE-RATIO SCHEDULE   show
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FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULE   show
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VARIABLE-INTERVAL SCHEDULE   show
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PUNISHMENT   show
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show A mental representation of the layout of one's environment. For example, after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of it.  
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show Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.  
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show The effect of promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do. The person may now see this reward, rather than intrinsic interest, as the motivation for performing the task.  
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show A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective.  
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EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION   show
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show Learning by observing others.  
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MODELING   show
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MIRROR NEURONS   show
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PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR   show
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