Psych learning and memory part 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 learning | a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience |
| associative learning | 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) |
| conditioning | a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment |
| classical conditioning | a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals as unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus |
| Ivan Pavlov | a Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning through the salvation of dogs |
| John B Watson | behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat |
| acquisition | the initial stage in classical conditioning; the phase associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of reinforced response |
| extinction | the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced |
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