Learning Vocabulary

a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.

• shaping
• classical conditioning
• operant conditioning
• learning

the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors.

• learning
• associative learning
• respondent behavior
• operant behavior

any event or situation that evokes a response

• conditioned response
• unconditioned response
• stimulus
• conditioned stimulus

the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.

• Cognitive learning
• classical conditioning
• associated learning
• neutral stimulus

the learning that certain events occur together.

• learning
• associative learning
• behavorism
• acquistion

a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

• operant conditioning
• classical conditioning
• cognitive learning
• associative learning

the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

• spontaneous recovery
• memory
• extinction
• acquisition

the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.

• generalization
• behavorism
• classical conditioning
• learning

in operant conditioning, any event the strengthens the behavior it follows

• reinforcement
• law of effect
• shaping
• positive reinforcement

a pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced.

• reinforcement schedule
• conditioned reinforcer
• punishment
• variable-interval schedule