AP Psychology, Unit 4

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

• Learning

• Classical conditioning

• Conditioned response (CR)

• Shaping

Decreased responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus

• Aquisition

• Habituates

• Learning

• Neutral stimuli

Learning that certain events occur together OR a response and its consequences

• Associative learning

• Respondent behavior

• Classical conditioning

• Aquisition

An event or situation that evokes a response

• Negative reinforcement

• Conditioned reinforcers

• Stimulus

• Positive reinforcement

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

• Reflex

• Learning

• Unconditioned response

• Respondent behavior

Behavior that operates on the environment to produce a consequence

• Conditioned response

• Operant behavior

• Unconditioned response

• Respondent behavior

A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli; as a result the first stimulus comes to elicit behavior in anticipation of the second stimulus

• Classical conditioning

• Behaviorism

• Associative learning

• Operant conditioning

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists today agree with the former but not the later.

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Personal control

• Behaviorism

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

• Neutral stimuli

• Unconditioned response (UR)

• Unconditioned stimulus (US)

• Stimulus

An unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

• Unconditioned stimulus (US)

• Unconditioned response (UR)

• Conditioned response (CR)

• Conditioned stimulus (CS)