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chap 5 final ns

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learning
-relatively permanent change in organism's behavior due to experience
adaptability
capacity to learn new behaviors that enable us to cope with changing circumstances
association
-how we learn by
-our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence
stimulus-stimulus learning
learning to associate one stim with another
(classical conditioning) [lil albert&pavolv dogs]
response-consequence learning
learning to associate a response with a consequence
-repeating behaviors after rewards, decreasing behaviors bringing bad results
(operant conditioning)[skinner box]
acquisition
during classical conditioning when association is made between neutral stimulus & unconditioned stimulus
temporal contiguity
(blaming food u ate for lunch on stomach ache rather than food from 2 days ago)
influences strength of conditioning
habituation
decrease in responding to stimulus after stimulus s repeatedly presented w/o important consequence
extinction
with unconditioned stim no longer follows contioned stim. the conditioned response decreases at some point & goes extinct.
spontaneous recovery
after a period of time, extinguished conditioned response spontaneously recovers (after extinction)
generalization
tendency to respond to stim in similar way you would response to a conditioned stim
discrimination
learned ability to distinguish between conditioned stim and other stim that do not signal an unconditioned response
continuous reinforcement
reinforcing desired response every time it occurs. (learning along with extinction occur rapidly)
partial reinforcement
reinforcing response only part of the time.
-results in lower acquisition during the beginning, greater resistance to extinction later on.
fixed ratio schedule
reinforce response after specified number of responses
-fiesta pay once a week
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