AP Psych - 6 - Learning (Classical and Operant ONLY)

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The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors is best characterized as:

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Learning

Front

What term means a decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus?

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Habituation

Front

What is the term for any event or situation that evokes a response?

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Stimulus

Front

What is the general term for learning that certain events occur together?

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Associative Learning

Front

What is the term for a behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences?

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Operant Conditioning

Front

What is the term for a learning to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events like the bell/food in Pavlov's experiments?

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Classical Conditioning

Front

What is the term for the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language?

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Cognitive Learning

Front

In classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (food) is called:

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

Front

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally, naturally and automatically, triggers an unconditioned response (UR) is called:

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS) is called:

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Conditioned Response (CR)