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Learning
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A relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavioral potential) due to experience.
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Behaviorism
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An approach to psychology that emphaisizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior.
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Conditioning
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A basic kind of learning that involvees associations between enviornmental stimuli and the organism's responses.
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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
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The classical conditioning tern for a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in thea bsense of learning.
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Unconditioned Response (UR)
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The classical conditioning term for a reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning.
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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The classical conditioning term for an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response after being associated with an uncondinted stimulus.
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Conditioned Response (CR)
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The classical Conditioning term for a resonse that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus; it occurs after the conditioned stimulus is associated with an unconditoined stimulus.
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Classical Conditioning
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The process by which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response thorugh association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response.
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Extinction
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The weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned responses; in classical conditioning, it occursz when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.
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Spontaneous Recovery
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The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction.
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Higher-Order Conditioning
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In classical conditioning, a procedure in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established condtioned stimulus.
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Stimulus Generalization
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After conditioning, the tendency to respond to a stimulus that resemebles one involved in the original condtioning; in classical conditionng, it occurs when a stimulus that resemebles the CS elicits the CR.
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Stimulus Discrimination
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The tendency to respond differently to two or more similar stimuli; in classical conditiong, it occurs when a stimulus similar to the CS fails to evoke the CR.
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Counterconditioning
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In classical conditioning, the process of pairing a conditioned stimulus with a stimulus that elicits a response that is incompatible with an unwanted condtioned response.
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Operant Conditioning
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The process by which a response becomes more likely to occur or less so, depending on its consequences.
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