AP Psych Unit 4 Learning Vocab

Any event that strengthens the behavior that precedes it

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Reinforcer

• Punishment

• Neutral stimulus

Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

• Social learning

• Insight learning

• Associative learning

• Latent learning

Procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

• Shaping

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Higher-order conditioning

Increasing a behavior by adding a desirable stimulus.

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive punishment

• Negative punishment

An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need.

• Immediate reinforcer

• Primary reinforcer

• Secondary reinforcer

• Delayed reinforcer

The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

• Acquisition

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Modeling

The unlearned, naturally occurring response to a natural, untrained stimulus

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Neutral stimulus

• Unconditioned response

• Conditioned response

The diminishing of a conditioned response, when the UCS no longer is presented after the CS

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Acquistion

• Spontaneous recovery

Performing a behavior that is imitated by an observer

• Insight learning

• Associative learning

• Shaping

• Modeling

 Increasing a behavior by stopping or reducing undesirable stimuli.

• Negative punishment

• Positive punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive punishment