Learning and Memory

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A response that occurs automatically as the result of a stimulus is called an

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Unconditioned Response

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If your heart raced when you were pulled over the cops, and now your heart begins to race whenever you see a white car in your rear-view mirror, your heart racing when you see a white car has become a

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Conditioned Response

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This occurs when people learn by seeing the consequences of another person’s behaviour (“Watch and Learn”)

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Vicarious Learning

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These fire when we perform certain actions and when we observe others performing actions

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Mirror Neurons

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These, whether positive or negative, are required for observational learning.

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Models

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_____________________________ occurs when we are unable to tell the difference between two similar stimuli (For example, Iced coffee and an Ice Cap).

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Generalization

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_________________________ occurs when we are able to spot the difference between two similar stimuli (For example, an aversion to ketchup but not ketchup chips).

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Discrimination

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When a rat presses a button to stop a loud buzzer from sounding, the rat is responding to _____________________________.

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Negative Reinforcement

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He was the researcher who placed cats into a puzzle box to see if they could be conditioned by reinforcement to make certain behaviours more likely to happen again:

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Thorndike

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The researcher in #9 found that the cats were more likely to solve the puzzle if they were rewarded with food afterwards. This is called the __________________________.

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Law of Effect