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Psychology AP Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards

Unit 3 Vocab of psychology AP

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594082065Classical ConditioningLearning by association, Stimulus-Response Learning, Pavlov, Watson, little albert's fear, and taste aversion
594082066Operant ConditioningLearning by consequence, A-B-C Learning, Thorndike's cats, instrumental learning, Little Albert's Avoidance, Reinforcement and punishment
594082067Social-Cognitive ConditioningLearning by Observation, Vicarious Conditioning, Bandura's Bobo Doll, Roll Modelling, Chameleon Effect, Kohler's Insight Learning
594082068Positive ReinforcementAdding to increase a behavior; A reward. i.e. clapping for a performer.
594082069Negative ReinforcementTaking away to increase a behavior; i.e. nagging, by the removal of nagging you do the behavior, your mom pisses you off so you go throw the garbage
594082070AcquisitionAcquiring the condition
594082071extinctionassociation begins to break down
594082072Spontaneous RecoverySuddenly start responding with behavior after extinction
594082073stimulus generalizationwhere animal responds to anything similar to conditioned stimulus; i.e. your dog barking at other cars in the drive way
594082074Positive PunishmentAdding something to weaken behavior; i.e. your hand on a stove adds pain to remove the behavior of putting your hand on a stove
594082075Negative PunishmentTaking away something to weaken behavior; i.e. taking away your xbox so you stop being a bad kid
594082076Fixed-Ratioset number of actions until reinforcement
594082077Variable-RatioRandom number of actions until reinforcement
594082078Fixed-Intervalset number of time until reinforcement
594082079Variable-Intervalrandom number of time until reinforcement
594082080Chameleon effectimitate body language without consciously doing so
594082081Insight LearningBy Wolfgang Kohler (Social-Cognitive Learning), sudden burst of insight; an "Aha" moment
594082082Cognitive mapstored layout of ex. maze, road
594082083Drive-Reduction TheoryMotives to reduce your drive, Negative Reinforcement, Nags
594082084Arousal Theorywe seek to put ourselves in stressful situations
594082085Incentive TheoryMental idea of a reward
594082086Extrinsic Motivationreward ex. fame, money or medals
594082087Intrinsic motivationdoing activity because it is rewarding regardless of extrinsic rewards (money, fame, etc)
594082088Cognitive Dissonancesmaller the incentive, the bigger the self-deception
594082089Effort JustificationJustifying an effort or action by lying to ourselves
594082090over-justification effecttakes what was an intrinsic motive and making it Extrinsic
594082091Paul Eckmansaid there are 6 universal emotions; those are sadness, anger, fear, surprise, happiness, and disgust
594082092The James-Lange TheoryStimulus leads to Autonomic Response then conscious emotion
594082093The Cannon-Bard TheoryStimulus goes to brain, then can go to either Autonomic response or conscious emotion; said body response and mental emotion can occur simultaneously
594082094The 2 Factor/Cognitive/Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotionsays stimulus can go to either autonomic response, or appraisal of situation then to conscious emotion
594082095Evolutionary Theorysays we have emotions because it allowed adapted survival function

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