Unit 6 Vocabulary AP Psych

an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

• operant behavior

• habituation

• positive reinforcement

• higher-order conditioning

a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment.

• extrinsic motivation

• latent learning

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed

• fixed-ratio schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

• discriminative stimulus

• fixed-interval schedule

behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.

• operant behavior

• respondent behavior

• prosocial behavior

• punishment

in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses

• fixed-interval schedule

• variable-interval schedule

• variable-ratio schedule

• fixed-ratio schedule

in classical conditioning, the learned reaction to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS).

• conditioned response (CR)

• conditioned reinforcer

• unconditioned stimulus (US)

• conditioned stimulus (cs)

in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response

• discrimination

• generalization

• acquisition

• extinction

reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs.

• primary reinforcer

• conditioned response (CR)

• continuous reinforcement

• conditioned reinforcer

the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced

• generalization

• discrimination

• acquisition

• extinction

in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring reaction to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth.

• unconditioned stimulus (us)

• acquisition

• unconditioned stimulus (US)

• unconditioned response (UR)