Learning and Conditioning

Act of responding in the same way to stimuli that seems similar

• Systematic desensitization

• Spontaneous recovery

• Conditioned stimulus

• Extinction

Method of overcoming fears by pairing a pleasing stimulus with a feared one

• Counter Conditioning

• Spontaneous recovery

• Conditioned stimulus

• Extinction

Form of learning based on the consequences of actions

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Primary reinforcer

• Secondary reinforcer

When a conditioned response stops occurring

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Extinction

• Counter conditioning

Stimulus that causes an automatic response

• Unconditioned stimulus

• Taste aversion

• Counter conditioning

• Generalization

Stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism’s basic biological needs

• Primary reinforcer

• Secondary reinforcer

• Generalization

• Discrimination

Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Extinction

• Counter conditioning

Revival of an extinguished response

• Flooding

• Spontaneous recovery

• Conditioned stimulus

• Extinction

Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs yielded information about

• Operant conditioning

• Classical conditioning

• Counter conditioning

• All of the above

A conditioned response occurs

• Automatically

• As a result of pairing an unconditioned stimulus with a conditioned stimulus

• After extinction

• As a result of all of the above