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Learning
 
The process by which experience or practice results in permanent change in behavior or potential...
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Classical conditioning/Pavlovian Conditioning
 
The type of learning where the response once elicited naturally is now elicited by a different,...
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UC Unconditioned Stimulus
 
a stimulus that causes an organism to respond…(MEAT)
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UR Unconditioned Response
 
A response that takes place in an organism when an unconditioned stimulus occurs.
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CS  Conditioned Stimulus
 
neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus to get an organism to give off a response…Eventually...
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CR  Conditioned Response
 
After conditioning….Response that takes place in an organism whan a Conditioned stimulus...
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Desentization Therapy
 
A conditioning technique used to desensitize anxiety about a particular object or situation.
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Operant conditioning/Instrumental conditioning
 
Thorndike and cats having to open the cage to get to reward….The type of learning where behaviors...
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Reinforcers
 
A stimuli that follows a behavior and increases the likelihood that the behavior will repeated
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Punishers
 
A stimuli that follows a behavior and decreases the likelihood that the behavior will repeated
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Positive reinforcement
 
events whose presence increase the likelihood that an ongoing behavior will recur
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Negative reinforcement
 
events whose reduction or termination increase the likelihood that ongoing behavior will recur
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Superstitious behavior
 
comes about by  coincidental stimulus
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Learned helplessness
 
To give up…exposure to a previous painful stimuli that causes failure to take steps to avoid...
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Skinner Box
 
A box often used in operant conditioning of animals It limits the available responses thus...

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