Psychology - Learning

Form of classical conditioning in which a food comes to be avoided.

• Shaping

• Taste aversion

• Discrimination

• Flooding

Act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seem similar.

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• Systematic desensitization

• Flooding

Method of overcoming fears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared one

• Systematic desensitization

• Counterconditioning

• Flooding

• Extinction

Method that involves relaxation and gradual exposure to a feared stimulus

• Discrimination

• Systematic desensitization

• Generalization

• Flooding

Form of learning based on the consequences of actions

• Operant conditioning

• Generalization

• Flooding

• Discrimination

When a conditioned response stops occurring

• Shaping

• Flooding

• Extinction

• Counterconditioning

Stimulus that causes an automatic response

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Second reinforcer

• Operant reinforcer

• Conditioned response

Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism’s basic biological needs

• Systematic desensitization

• Conditioned stimulus

• Generalization

• Primary reinforcer

Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar

• Discrimination

• Counterconditioning

• Shaping

• Flooding

Revival of an extinguished response

• Second reinforcer

• Systematic desensitization

• Conditioned response

• Spontaneous recovery