Ch 8 Vocabulary Test
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| A. the reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response B. a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisherC. in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it followsD. in operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses E. 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 F. in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimuli (UCS), such as salivation when food is in the mouthG. the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforcedH. the effect of promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do; the person may now see the reward, rather than intrinsic interest, as the motivation for performing the taskI. a mental representative of the layout of one's environment; for example, after exploring a maze, rats act as if they have learned a cognitive map of itJ. positive , constructive, helpful behavior; the opposite of antisocial behavior K. in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a responseL. frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so; the brain's mirroring of another's action may enable imitation, language learning, and empathyM. a chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer, with attached devices to record the animal's rate of bar pressing or key pecking; used in operant conditioning research N. a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience O. 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) P. Thorndike's principle that behaviors followers by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likelyQ. in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS), comes to trigger a conditioned responseR. 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) and not with (2)S. a desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effectiveT. in operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses |
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