Psychology Final Study guide

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Psychology is the scientific study of ____________________ and __________________ processes.

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Behavior and Mental

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Learning that connects two stimuli together, like Pavlov and the dog with a bell

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Classical Conditioning

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A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary and unlearned response. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food.

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, the salivation to the food.

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Unconditioned Response

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A previously neutral stimulus that becomes able to produce a conditioned response, after pairing with an unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, when the dogs linked the bowl with the food.

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Conditioned Stimulus

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A learned response to a conditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s dogs, when the dog salivates at the sight of the bowl, even when it’s empty.

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Conditioned Response

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A stimulus that has no effect on the desired response prior to conditioning. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food bowl before the experiment.

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Neutral Stimulus

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The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses or what we call reinforcers or punishment

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Operant Conditioning

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Pavlov's experiments with dogs yielded information about which of the following?
operant conditioning, classical conditioning, counterconditioning, latent learning

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classical conditioning

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Items or events that when following a response will strengthen it.

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Reinforcement