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AP Psych - Ch 6

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Learning   show
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show Irrational fears of specific objects or situations  
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show 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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show 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   show
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show A stimulus that evokes an UCR  
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Uncoditioned Response UCR   show
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Conditoned Stimulus CS   show
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Conditioned Response CR   show
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show To draw out or bring forth [classical conditioning]  
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show Any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli in classical conditioning  
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show The formation of a new response tendency  
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show 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   show
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show The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditoned stimulus  
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Stimulus generalization   show
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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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show Standard operatn chamber in which an animal's respinses are controlled and recorded  
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Emit   show
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show 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   show
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Shaping   show
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show 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   show
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Discriminative Stimuli   show
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Primary reinforcers   show
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show Stimulus events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers  
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show A specific pattern of presentation reinforcers over time  
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Continuous reinforcement   show
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show The name for all schedules of reinforcement in which designated responses is reinforced some of the time  
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show The reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses  
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show The reinforcer is given after a variable number of nonreinforced responses  
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show The reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval  
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show the reinforcer is given after the first response that occurs after a variable time interval  
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Positive reinforcement   show
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show occurs when a response is strenghened because it is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus  
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Escape Learning   show
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show Occurs when an organims engages in a response that prevents aversive stimulation from occuring  
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show Occurs when an event that follows a response weakens the tendency to make that response  
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show Occurs when an animals innate response tendencies interfere with conditoning processes  
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Observational Learning   show
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Behavioral modifications   show
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show 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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show A system for distrubuting symbolic reinforcers that are exchanged later for a variety of genuine reinforcers  
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show A written agreement outlining a promise to adher to the contigencies of a behavior modification program  
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Partial reinforcement   show
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show Another name for a secondary reinforcer  
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Preparedness   show
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Operant chamber   show
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