Learning Vocabulary Review

The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.

• habituation

• respondent behavior

• learning

• operant behavior

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus.

• habituation

• learning

• stimulus

• acquisition

Learning that certain events occur together.

• learning

• stimulus

• associative learning

• habituation

Any event or situation that evokes a response.

• learning

• habituation

• associative learning

• stimulus

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.

• operant behavior

• stimulus

• associative learning

• respondent behavior

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.

• operant behavior

• respondent behavior

• associative learning

• stimulus

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

• learning

• cognitive learning

• classical conditioning

• behaviorism

A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli; as a result, to illustrate with Pavlov's classic experiment, the first stimulus (a tone) comes to elicit behavior (salivation) in anticipation of the second stimulus (food).

• cognitive learning

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.

• cognitive learning

• behaviorism

• humanistic

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.

• unconditioned stimulus

• conditioned stimulus

• neutral stimulus

• conditioned response