A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by punishment.

An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.

Reinforces the first response after a fixed time period.

Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. May enable imitation and empathy.

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

In classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is put into the mouth.

In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus.

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

Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli such as food.

What is acquisition?

The number of responses

The procedure where reinforcers gradually guide an animal's actions towards the desired complex behavior

A child is offered a reward after they earn five A's on her homework assignments. After her fifth A on a homework assignment, she gets to pick out a new outfit