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Chapter 5: Learning Flashcards

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Learning

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Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice

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Classical conditioning

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  • a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired
  • food and bell for dog
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Unconditioned stimulus

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Original stimulus, unlearned (food for dogs)

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Unconditioned response

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Automatic and involuntary response to unconditioned stimulus (salivation to food)

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Conditioned stimulus

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Neutral stimulus can become able to produce conditioned response after pairing it with unconditioned stimulus (bell with dog food)

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Neutral stimulus

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Has no effect on desired response prior to conditioning (bell not paired with anything)

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Conditioned response

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Learned response to conditioned stimulus (salivation to bell)

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Basics for classical conditioning

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  1. Conditioned stimulus (cs) before UCS (Metronome before food)
  2. CS and UCS close together in time (-5 sec)
  3. Must be paired several times before conditioning takes place
  4. CS: should be distinctive
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Stimulus generalization

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  • Tendency to respond to stimulus similar to the original cs with the conditioned response (the more similar, the stronger)
    (- sound similar to a bell)
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Stimulus discrimination

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  • stop making generalized response to stimulus similar to original cs, because similar one is never paired with us
  • (other similar sound won’t cause salivation anymore after realizing that there’s no food)
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Extinction

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  • Disappearance of learned response following removal or absence of US
  • (took food away from ticking, stopped salivating from ticking alone)
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Spontaneous recovery

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Reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred

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Higher-order conditioning

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Occurs when a strong conditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus, causing the neutral stimulus to become a second conditioned stimulus

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Cognitive perspective

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  • Conditioning occurs because CS provides information/expectancy about the coming of the US
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Conditioned emotional response (CER)

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  • Emotional response that has become classically conditioned to occur to learned stimuli
  • (fear of dogs, emotional reaction to attractive person)
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Vicarious conditioning

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  • Classical conditioning of an involuntary response/emotion by watching reaction of another person
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Watson

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Little Albert and white rat

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Conditioned taste aversions

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  • Development of a nausea to particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction, occurring after only one association
  • (Döner)
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Biological preparedness

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  • animals learn certain associations, e.g. taste and nausea, with only one/few parings due to survival value of the learning
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Operant conditioning

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Learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of reinforcement and punishment

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Law of effect

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  • If action is followed by pleasurable consequence: tend to be repeated,
  • if followed by unpleasant consequence, tends not to be repeated
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Operant

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Any behavior that is voluntary and not elicited by specific stimuli

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Reinforcement

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Any event/stimulus that, when following a response, increases the probability that the response will occur again

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Reinforcers

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Any events/objects that, when following a response, increase the likelihood of that response occurring again

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Primary reinforcer
Any reinforcer that is naturally reinforcing by meeting a basic biological need (hunger, thirst, touch)
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Secondary reinforcer
Any reinforcer that becomes reinforcing after being paired with a primary reinforcer, such as praise, tokens or gold stars
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Positive reinforcement
Reinforcement of a response by the addition or experiencing of a pleasurable stimulus
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Negative reinforcement
The reinforcement of a response by the removal/escape from/avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus
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Operant conditioning based on
Edward L. Thorndike and B. F. Skinner
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Operant
Any behavior that is voluntary and not elicited by specific stimuli
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Partial reinforcement effect
Tendency for a response that is reinforced after some, but not all, correct responses to be very resistant to extinction (1$ each week)
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Continuous reinforcement
The reinforcement of each and every correct response (0,25$ everytime)
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Fixed interval schedule of reinforcement
The interval of time that must pass before reinforcement becomes possible is always the same (paycheck once a week)
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Variable interval schedule of reinforcement
The interval of time that must pass before reinforcement becomes possible is different for each trial or event
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Fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement
The number of responses required for reinforcement is always the same
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Variable ratio schedule of reinforcement
number of responses required for reinforcement is different for each trial or event
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Punishment
Any event or object that, when following a response, makes that response less likely to happen again
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Punishment by application
Punishment of a response by the addition or experiencing of an unpleasant stimulus
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Punishment by removal
Punishment of a response by the removal of a pleasurable stimulus
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Discriminative stimulus
Any stimulus (stop sign/door knob) that provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement(slowing down if you see police car)
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Behavior modification
The use of learning techniques to modify/change undesirable behavior and increase desirable behavior (select target behavior, reinforcer, special treat)
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Token economy
The use of objects called tokens to reinforce behavior in which the tokens can be accumulated and exchanged for desired items or privileges
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Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
Form of functional analysis and behavior modification that uses variety of behavioral techniques to mold a desired behavior or response
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Biofeedback
Using feedback about biological conditions to bring involuntary responses, such as blood pressure and relaxation, under voluntary control
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Behavior modification
The use of learning techniques to modify/change undesirable behavior and increase desirable behavior (select target behavior, reinforcer, special treat)
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Token economy
The use of objects called tokens to reinforce behavior in which the tokens can be accumulated and exchanged for desired items or privileges
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Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
Form of functional analysis and behavior modification that uses variety of behavioral techniques to mold a desired behavior or response
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Biofeedback
Using feedback about biological conditions to bring involuntary responses, such as blood pressure and relaxation, under voluntary control
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Neurofeedback
Form of biofeedback using brain-scanning devices to provide feedback about brain activity in an effort to modify behavior
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Latent learning
Learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful
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Insight
The sudden perception of relationships among various parts of a problem, allowing the solution to the problem to come quickly
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Learned helplessness
The tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past
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Observational learning
Learning new behavior by watching a model perform that behavior
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Learning/performance distinction
Observation that learning can take place without actual performance of the learned behavior
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Four elements of observational learning (Bandura)
1. Attention 2. Memory 3. Imitation 4. Desire
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