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Ch 8 Vocabulary Test

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unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
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law of effect
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fixed-ratio schedule
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reinforcer
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unconditioned response (UCR)
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associative learning
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operant chamber (Skinner box)
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behaviorism
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mirror neurons
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extinction
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over-justification effect
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learning
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partial reinforcement
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conditioned stimulus (CS)
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intrinsic motivation
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spontaneous recovery
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variable-ratio schedule
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operant conditioning
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pro-social behavior
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cognitive maps
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the reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response
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a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
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in operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows
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in operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses
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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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in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimuli (UCS), such as salivation when food is in the mouth
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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 reinforced
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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 task
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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 it
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positive , constructive, helpful behavior; the opposite of antisocial behavior
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in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response
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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 empathy
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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
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a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
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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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Thorndike's principle that behaviors followers by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
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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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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)
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a desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective
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in operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses
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in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguished between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus
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learning by observing others
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learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
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behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences
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an event that decreases the behavior that it follows
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an innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need
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the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
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in operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement that reinforces only after a specified time has elapsed
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an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of a desired goal
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behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus; Skinner's term for behavior learned through classical conditioning

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