Psych ch.6 and 9
Terms
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- shaping
- consists of reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of desired response
- classical conditioning
- type of learning in which a stimulus aquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus
- unconditioned stimulus
- evoked an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
- conditioned stimulus
- previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
- renewal effect
- if a response is extinguished in a different environment then it was aquired, the extinguished response will reappear if the animal is returned to the original environment where it took place.
- Acquisition
- refers to the initial stage of learning.
- Operant Conditioning.
- a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled be there consequences.
- Positive reinforcement
- occurs when a response is strengthened because it is followed by the presentation of a rewarding stimulus
- negative reinforcement
- occurs when a response is stregnthened becausee it is followed be the removal of an aversive (Unpleasant) stimulus
- Positive punishment
- Do something that makes less likely the behavior repeats
- Negative punishment
- take something away so it doesn't happen again
- validity
- actually measures what you think your measuring.
- general Intelligence
- intellectual potential, not prior learning.
- Aptitude
- specific mental abilities.
- Achievement test
- mastery of subjects
- Observational learning
- occurs when an organisms responds by the influence of others.