Chapter 7 Learning Flashcards

A relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience

Theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of such mental activity as thinking, wishing, and hoping

Learning where a connection or association is made between two events

Process of learning associations

Classical conditioning and Operant Conditioning

Organisms learn the asociation between a behavior and consequence

Oragnisms learning the association between two stimuli

Learning that occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior; also called imitatinon or modeling

Learning by which a neutral stimulus becomes assoicated with a meaning ful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response neutral stimulus + meaningful stimulus

Unconditioned stimulus Stimulus that produces a response without prior learning (ex. food)

Unconditioned Response Unlearned response that is automatically elicited by an unconditioned stimulus (ex. salivation)

Conditioned Stimulus A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the conditioned response after being associated with the unconditioned stimulus (ex. tone that elicits conditioned repsonse)

The learned response to the conditioned stimulus that occurs after the pairing

Initial learning of the stimulus-response link, which involves a neutral stimulus being associated with an unconditioned stimulus and becoming conditioned stimulus that elicits the conditioned response

The tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a responmse that is similar to the conditioned response