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Chapter 5

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show relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of an individual’s experience.  
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As the result of experience, you acquire   show
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show learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses.  
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show classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.  
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show certain stimuli can trigger a reflexive, automatic response  
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show acquire new, voluntary actions,  
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show acquire new behaviors by observing the actions of others.  
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show associations between stimuli  
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show Russian physiologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on digestion Ivan Pavlov’s  
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a reflexive response   show
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show basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with a response-producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response.  
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Classical conditioning deals with behaviors that are   show
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Elicit means   show
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show relatively simple, unlearned behavior, governed by the nervous system, that occurs automatically when the appropriate stimulus is presented.  
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Classical conditioning involves pairing a   show
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show eventually the neutral stimulus (Pavlov) elicits the same basic reflexive response as the natural stimulus (food) — even in the absence of the natural stimulus  
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show unconditioned stimulus (or UCS  
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The unlearned, reflexive response that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus is called the   show
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conditioned stimulus (or CS) is a formerly   show
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show learned, reflexive response to a previously neutral stimulus  
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show “learned stimulus,”  
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“unconditioned response” refers to the   show
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show strength of the conditioned response  
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show the stronger the association between the two.  
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show timing of stimulus presentations affected the strength of the conditioned response.  
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He found that conditioning was most effective when the   show
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show new stimuli that were similar to the original conditioned stimulus could also elicit the conditioned salivary response.  
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show occurrence of a learned response not only to the original stimulus but to other, similar stimuli as well.  
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stimulus discrimination, is the   show
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show unconditioned stimulus.  
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show conditioned stimulus from one learning trial functions as the unconditioned stimulus in a new conditioning trial.  
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show gradually weakened.  
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show the conditioned response seemed to gradually disappear.  
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show gradual weakening and apparent disappearance of conditioned behavior  
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show reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus  
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extinction is not   show
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show disappear, but it is not eliminated or erased  
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Behaviorism was founded by   show
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show John Watson.  
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show could be objectively observed.  
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Watson founded a new school, or approach, in psychology, called   show
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show study of observable behaviors, especially as they pertain to the process of learning  
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show conditioning and learning  
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show individual’s psychological and physiological response to what is actually a fake treatment or drug.  
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show cognitive factors and evolutionary influences in classical conditioning.  
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According to Rescorla (1988), classical conditioning depends on the information the conditioned stimulus provides about the   show
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show predicts the presentations of the unconditioned stimulus  
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show draw inferences about the signals they encounter in their environments  
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show scientist, detecting causal relations among events and using a range of information about those events to make the relevant inferences”  
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show relationships between events  
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Taste aversion is formally defined as a   show
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sychologist John Garcia, who demonstrated that taste aversions could be   show
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biological preparedness   show
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show active, voluntary behaviors that are shaped and maintained by their consequences.  
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Classical conditioning can help explain the   show
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classical conditioning involves reflexive behaviors that are   show
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operant conditioning, another form of conditioning that explains how we   show
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show animal learning and how voluntary behaviors are influenced by their consequences.  
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show learning principle in which responses followed by satisfying effects are strengthened (more likely to occur again), but responses followed by dissatisfying effects are weakened (less likely to occur again).  
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Thorndike’s description of the law of effect was an important first step in understanding how   show
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From the time he was a graduate student in psychology until his death, the famous American psychologist B. F. Skinner searched for the   show
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Like John Watson, Skinner was a   show
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To Skinner, the most important form of learning was demonstrated by   show
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show “active behavior that operates upon the environment to generate consequences.”  
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Skinner’s operant conditioning is the   show
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One possible consequence of a behavior is   show
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show stimulus or an event following a response that increases the likelihood of that response being repeated.  
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show increasing or strengthening the occurrence of a behavior in the future.  
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operant   show
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reinforcing stimulus, or reinforcer   show
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reinforcing stimulus is typically something   show
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The discriminative stimulus is a   show
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discriminative stimuli can also signal that   show
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There are two forms of reinforcement:   show
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Positive is the equivalent of a   show
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Negative is the equivalent of a   show
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Positive reinforcement is a situation in which a   show
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f the addition of the reinforcing stimulus has the effect of making you more likely to repeat the operant in similar situations in the future   show
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Negative reinforcement occurs when a   show
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show which will then typically be repeated.  
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show results in the removal of, avoidance of, or escape from an aversive, or undesired, stimulus, increasing the likelihood that the response will be repeated in similar situations.  
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extinction, a phenomenon that occurs when a   show
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This phenomenon is called the partial reinforcement effect,   show
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show reinforcement is delivered after a certain number of responses,  
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show reinforcement is delivered after a certain interval, or amount of time, has elapsed.  
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reinforcement schedules are fixed,   show
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show reinforcement occurs after an average number of responses or average time interval, which varies from trial to trial.  
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show high, steady rates of responding that are very resistant to extinction  
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Variable-interval schedules tend to   show
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show watching and imitating the behaviors of others.  
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First, you must pay attention to the   show
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show behavior so that you can perform it at a later time  
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Third, you must transform this mental representation into   show
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show learning to take place through observation.  
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Fourth, there must be some   show
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show will produce reinforcement or reward  
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