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AP Psych - Ch 6

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Learning   A relatively durable change in behavior or knowlegde that is due to experience  
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Phobias   Irrational fears of specific objects or situations  
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Classical conditioning   The most common name of a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus  
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Pavlonian Conditionning   Another name for classical conditioning derived from the name of the person who originally discovered the conditioning phenomenon  
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Concurent schedules of reinforcement   Two or more reinforcement schedules simultaneously available for two or more different responses  
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Unconditioned Stimulus UCS   A stimulus that evokes an UCR  
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Uncoditioned Response UCR   The response to a UCS  
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Conditoned Stimulus CS   A previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to evoke conditionning  
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Conditioned Response CR   A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning  
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Elicit   To draw out or bring forth [classical conditioning]  
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Trial   Any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli in classical conditioning  
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Acquisition   The formation of a new response tendency  
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Matching Law   Under concurrent schedules of reinforcement, rate of responding tends to match the rate of reingorcement available on ach alternative response  
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Extinction   The gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned response tendency  
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Spontaneous Recovery   The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditoned stimulus  
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Stimulus generalization   Occurs when an organism reponds to new stimuli that are similar to the stimulus used in conditioning  
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Stimulus discrimination   Occurs when an organism learns to not respond to stimuli that are similar to the stimulus used in condtioning  
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Higher-order conditioning   Occurs when a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus  
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Operant conditoning   This term, introduced by Skinner, refers to learning in which voluntary responses come to be controled by their consequences  
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Instrumental Learning   Another name for operant conditioning, this term was introduced earlier by THorndike  
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Law of Effect   Law stating that if a respoonse in the presence of a stimulus leads to satisfying effects, the association between the stimulus and the response is strengthened  
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Reinforcement   Occurs when an event following a response strengthens the tendency to make that response  
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Skinner box   Standard operatn chamber in which an animal's respinses are controlled and recorded  
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Emit   Production of voluntary responses in responding operant conditioning  
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Reinforcement Contigencies   The circumstances or rules that determine whether responses lead to presentation of reinforcers or the relationship between a reponse and positive consequences  
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Cumulative recorder   Device that creates a graphic record of operant ressponding as a function of time  
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Shaping   THe reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of the desired response  
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Optimal foraging strategy   The food seeking behaviors of many animals maximize nutrition gained in relation to energy expended to locate and eat the foods  
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Resistance to extinction   Occurs when an organism continues to make a response after delivery of the reinforcer for it has been terminated  
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Discriminative Stimuli   Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences of a response  
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Primary reinforcers   Stimulus events that are inherently reinforcing because they satisfy biological needs  
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Secondary reinforcers   Stimulus events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers  
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Schedule of reinforcement   A specific pattern of presentation reinforcers over time  
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Continuous reinforcement   Occurs when every instance of a designated response is reinforced  
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Interminent reinforcement   The name for all schedules of reinforcement in which designated responses is reinforced some of the time  
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FR Schedule   The reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses  
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VR Schedule   The reinforcer is given after a variable number of nonreinforced responses  
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FI Schedule   The reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval  
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VI Schedule   the reinforcer is given after the first response that occurs after a variable time interval  
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Positive reinforcement   occurs when a response is strenghened because it is followed by the arrival of a rewarding stimulus  
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Negative Reinforcement   occurs when a response is strenghened because it is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus  
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Escape Learning   occurs when an organism engages in a response that brings aversive stimulation to an end  
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Avoidance Learning   Occurs when an organims engages in a response that prevents aversive stimulation from occuring  
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Punishment   Occurs when an event that follows a response weakens the tendency to make that response  
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Instinctive drigs   Occurs when an animals innate response tendencies interfere with conditoning processes  
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Observational Learning   Occurs when an organisms responding is influenced by the observation of others, who are called models  
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Behavioral modifications   A systematic approach o changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning  
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Antecedents   Events that typically preced your target bahavior and may play a major role in governing your target response; also another term fro discriminative stimuli  
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Token economy   A system for distrubuting symbolic reinforcers that are exchanged later for a variety of genuine reinforcers  
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Behavioral Contract   A written agreement outlining a promise to adher to the contigencies of a behavior modification program  
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Partial reinforcement   When a designated response is reinforced only some of the time another name for intemittent reinforcemnt  
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Conditioned reinforcement   Another name for a secondary reinforcer  
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Preparedness   A species specific predisposition to be conditioned in a certain ways and not in others  
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Operant chamber   A small enclosure in which an animals reponses are recorded and followed by specific consequences. a skinner box  
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