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| relatively permanent behavior change due to experience |
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| Help feed our habitual behaviors |
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| Learning that certain events occur together. |
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| A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events |
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| Objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
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| Physiologist, explored research conditioning |
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| A person suffers from the sense of powerlessness arising from a traumatic event or failure to succeed. Underlying cause of depression |
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| Learning process occurring when two stimuli are repeatedly paired |
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| The unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditional stimulus |
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| A stimulus that unconditionally- naturally and automatically triggers a response |
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| Learned response to a previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus |
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| Previously neutral stimulus that, after association with unconditioned stimulus triggers a conditioned response |
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| The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering conditioned response |
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| reappearance after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response |
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| Tendency once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar response |
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| Occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus |
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| Type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher |
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| Behavior that operates on environment producing consequences |
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| Thorndike's principle- behaviors followed by favorable consequences |
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| Containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain food or water reinforcer. Attached device |
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| Procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of desired behavior |
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| any event that strengthens the behavior it follows |
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| increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli |
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| Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli |
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| innately reinforcing stimulus |
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| stimulus that gains reinforcing power through association with a primary reinforcer |
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| reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs |
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| reinforcing a response only half of the time |
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| reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses |
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| schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses |
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| reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed |
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| Mental representation of the layout of one's environment |
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| Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it |
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| process of observing and imitating a specific behavior |
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| Lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. |
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