Learning Psychology

Who created Classical Conditioning?

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

Who created Operant Conditioning?

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

Learning not to respond to the repeated presentation of a stimulus.

• Mere exposure Effect

• Habituation

• Acquisition

• Extinction

A learned preference for stimuli to which we have been previously exposed.

• Mere exposure Effect

• Habituation

• Acquistition

• Extinction

The stage when one links a neutral stimulus to a unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins to cause the conditioned response.

• Mere exposure Effect

• Habituation

• Acquistition

• Extinction

A stimulus that unconditionally—naturally and automatically—triggers a response.

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Response

The unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth.

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Response

An originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Response

The learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Response

A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed

• Fixed-interval Schedule

• Fixed-ratio Schedule

• Variable-ratio Schedule

• Variable-interval Schedule