Psychology

the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring imformation or behaviors

• Habituation

• Learning

• Associative Learning

• Behaviorism

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

• Classical Conditioning

• Associative Learning

• Conditioned stimulus

• Cognitive Learning

Unconditioned Response

• A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

• An originally irrelevant stimulus

• A stimulus that unconditionally- naturally and automatically- triggered a response

• An unlearned, naturally occurring response to us

The initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response

• Acquisition

• Higher-order conditioning

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Discrimination

The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Extinction

• Acquisition

The diminished responding that occurs when the CS(tone) no longer signals an impending US(food)

• Generalization

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Extinction

• Higher-order Conditioning

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

• Extinction

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Generalization

• Discrimination

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

• Generalization

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Extinction

• Acquisition

When satisfaction follows an association, it is more likely to be repeated

• Operant Conditioning

• Reinforcement

• Primary Reinforcers

• Law of Effect

a stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer

• Reinforcement

• Secondary Reinforcers

• Shaping

• Discriminative Stimulus